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Z85 Encode / Decode
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Z85 is an encoding for binary data; inputs must meet length constraints.
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What is Z85?
A Base85 variant standardized by ZeroMQ for binary data.
Length constraints?
Encode requires 4N input bytes; decode requires 5N characters.
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ASCII85
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Where is Z85 used?
ZeroMQ and environments needing compact textual binary encoding.
Padding rules?
Z85 has fixed 4-byte grouping; padding must align to 4 bytes.