@digitalcredentials/base64url-universal v2.0.6

Universal base64url Library (@digitalcredentials/base64url-universal)

A Javascript isomorphic library for base64url text encoding, for Node.js, React Native and browsers

Table of Contents

• Background
• Security
• Install
• Usage
• Contribute
• License

Background

Encode/Decode input according to the "Base64url Encoding" format as specified in JSON Web Signature (JWS) RFC7517. A URL safe character set is used and trailing '=', line breaks, whitespace, and other characters are omitted.

Security

TBD

Install

• Node.js 16+ is recommended.

NPM

To install via NPM:

npm install @digitalcredentials/base64url-universal

Development

To install locally (for development):

git clone https://github.com/digitalcredentials/base64url-universal.git
cd base64url-universal
npm install

Usage

• base64url-universal
  • encode(input) ⇒ string ⏏
  • decode(input) ⇒ Uint8Array ⏏

encode(input) ⇒ string ⏏

Encodes input according to the "Base64url Encoding" format as specified in JSON Web Signature (JWS) RFC7517. A URL safe character set is used and trailing '=', line breaks, whitespace, and other characters are omitted.

Kind: Exported function
Returns: string - the encoded value.

decode(input) ⇒ Uint8Array ⏏

Decodes input according to the "Base64url Encoding" format as specified in JSON Web Signature (JWS) RFC7517. A URL safe character set is used and trailing '=', line breaks, whitespace, and other characters are omitted.

Kind: Exported function
Returns: Uint8Array - the decoded value.

Contribute

PRs accepted.

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License

MIT License © 2023 Digital Credentials Consortium.