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1 Implementation of the base64 encoding scheme as defined by RFC 4648. 2 3 A stream-based encoding and decoding interface is available via [[newencoder]] 4 and [[newdecoder]], which transparently encode or decode bytes to or from base64 5 when writing to or reading from an underlying I/O handle. 6 7 Convenience functions for encoding to or decoding from a byte slice or a string 8 are also available; see [[encodeslice]], [[decodeslice]], [[encodestr]], and 9 [[decodestr]]. These functions dynamically allocate their return values; use the 10 stream interface if you require static allocation. 11 12 Each function accepts the desired base64 encoding alphabet as its first 13 argument. [[std_encoding]] and [[url_encoding]], as defined by the RFC, are 14 provided for your convenience, but you may create your own encoding using 15 [[encoding_init]]. 16 17 Due to security concerns described by the RFC, this implementation rejects 18 invalid padding. 19 20 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4648#section-12