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Tool for decoding / encoding in Base32 according to RFC 4648. Base 32 is a variant of Base64 which uses letters and numbers from 2 to 7 (and =) as basic symbols.

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Base32

Base32 Decoder

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See also: Base64 Coding

Base32 Encoder


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What is Base32? (Definition)

The Base32 code is an encoding standard described in RFC 4648 in order to facilitate the transmission of binary strings via 32 characters of the ASCII table.

How to encrypt using Base32 cipher?

The Base32 uses 32 characters: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567 and the = symbol optionally used as the final character (as in Base64).

The message to be encoded is first treated as a binary string (according to a predefined encoding such as ASCII or Unicode).

Example: Base is encoded in ASCII (8-bit) 01000010,01100001,01110011,01100101

The string is then split every 5 bits, and optionally completed with 0s.

Example: The split gives the 32 bits 01000,01001,10000,10111,00110,11001,01 (three 0 needed at the end)

Each 5-tuple is then encoded in base 32 by the letter or the corresponding number according to the conversion table:

BinaryDecimalBase32
000000A
000011B
000102C
000113D
001004E
001015F
001106G
001117H
010008I
010019J
0101010K
0101111L
0110012M
0110113N
0111014O
0111115P
1000016Q
1000117R
1001018S
1001119T
1010020U
1010121V
1011022W
1011123X
1100024Y
1100125Z
11010262
11011273
11100284
11101295
11110306
11111317

Example: 01000 for I, 01001 for J, and so on. Until IJQXGZI

The standard indicates that the Base32 message must have a number of characters multiple of 8. The message obtained must therefore be completed with the character = (padding char).

Example: Finally, the message Base is base32-encoded IJQXGZI=

How to decrypt Base32 cipher?

The Base32 decoding is similar to a mathematical base change.

Example: Decode the message INXWIZI= coded in Base 32

Delete the final = of the encoded message.

Example: INXWIZI= becomes INXWIZI

Replace each character with its 5-bit value (cf conversion table) to create a binary string.

Example: I for 01000, N for 01101, etc. Until 01000,01101,10111,10110,01000,11001,01000

Read the binary string according to the encoding used (ASCII, Unicode, etc.)

Example: The message is divided into bytes (8-bits) as follows: 01000011,01101111,01100100,01100101 (the last string composed of 0 is ignored), which corresponds to ASCII (or Unicode) string Code

How to recognize a Base32 ciphertext?

A B32-encoded message

— is composed only of the characters 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567 =' (no 0,1,8,9)

— theoretically has a number of character multiple of 8.

— ends with 0,1,3,4 or 6 characters = (equal).

— has a length greater than 40 to 60% of the original message

Why aren't digit 0 and 1 used in Base32?

The digit 0 is avoided not to be confused with the letter O, and the number 1 is also avoided for its resemblance to the letter I.

What are the variants of the Base32 encoding?

Base32 is similar to Base64 which is much more commonly used.

The zbase32 code is a Base32 variant wanting to be more human-readable and writable.

The mathematical basis 32 (or base32hex) is the most natural version for writing numbers in base 32 and uses the symbols 0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv

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