added base2 implementation as per RFC

base2.go

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+package multibase
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"strconv"
+)
+
+// binaryEncodeToString takes an array of bytes and returns
+// multibase binary representation
+func binaryEncodeToString(src []byte) string {
+	dst := make([]byte, len(src)*8)
+	encodeBinary(dst, src)
+	return string(dst)
+}
+
+// encodeBinary takes the src and dst bytes and converts each
+// byte to their binary rep using power reduction method
+func encodeBinary(dst []byte, src []byte) {
+	for i := 0; i < len(src); i++ {
+		t := src[i]
+		for j := i * 8; j < (i*8)+8; j++ {
+			higherPower := math.Pow(2, float64(7-(j%8)))
+			if float64(t) >= higherPower {
+				dst[j] = '1'
+				t = t - byte(higherPower)
+			} else {
+				dst[j] = '0'
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// decodeBinaryString takes multibase binary representation
+// and returns a byte array
+func decodeBinaryString(s string) ([]byte, error) {
+	if len(s) % 8 != 0 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot decode multibase: %s",
+			"length should be a multiple of 4")
+	}
+
+	data := make([]byte, len(s)/8)
+
+	for i, dstIndex := 0, 0; i < len(s); i = i + 8 {
+		value, err := strconv.ParseInt(s[i:i+8], 2, 0)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("error while conversion: %s", err)
+		}
+
+		data[dstIndex] = byte(value)
+		dstIndex++
+	}
+
+	return data, nil
+}

multibase.go

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ const (
 // specified in standard are left out
 var Encodings = map[string]Encoding{
 	"identity":          0x00,
+	"base2":             '0',
 	"base16":            'f',
 	"base16upper":       'F',
 	"base32":            'b',
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ var Encodings = map[string]Encoding{
 
 var EncodingToStr = map[Encoding]string{
 	0x00: "identity",
+	'0':  "base2",
 	'f':  "base16",
 	'F':  "base16upper",
 	'b':  "base32",
@@ -92,6 +94,8 @@ func Encode(base Encoding, data []byte) (string, error) {
 	case Identity:
 		// 0x00 inside a string is OK in golang and causes no problems with the length calculation.
 		return string(Identity) + string(data), nil
+	case Base2:
+		return string(Base2) + binaryEncodeToString(data), nil
 	case Base16:
 		return string(Base16) + hex.EncodeToString(data), nil
 	case Base16Upper:
@@ -141,6 +145,9 @@ func Decode(data string) (Encoding, []byte, error) {
 	switch enc {
 	case Identity:
 		return Identity, []byte(data[1:]), nil
+	case Base2:
+		bytes, err := decodeBinaryString(data[1:])
+		return enc, bytes, err
 	case Base16, Base16Upper:
 		bytes, err := hex.DecodeString(data[1:])
 		return enc, bytes, err

multibase_test.go

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ func TestMap(t *testing.T) {
 var sampleBytes = []byte("Decentralize everything!!!")
 var encodedSamples = map[Encoding]string{
 	Identity:          string(0x00) + "Decentralize everything!!!",
+	Base2:             "00100010001100101011000110110010101101110011101000111001001100001011011000110100101111010011001010010000001100101011101100110010101110010011110010111010001101000011010010110111001100111001000010010000100100001",
 	Base16:            "f446563656e7472616c697a652065766572797468696e67212121",
 	Base16Upper:       "F446563656E7472616C697A652065766572797468696E67212121",
 	Base32:            "birswgzloorzgc3djpjssazlwmvzhs5dinfxgoijbee",
@@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ func BenchmarkRoundTrip(b *testing.B) {
 
 	bases := map[string]Encoding{
 		"Identity":          Identity,
+		"Base2":             Base2,
 		"Base16":            Base16,
 		"Base16Upper":       Base16Upper,
 		"Base32":            Base32,