syncthing/luhn/luhn.go
2014-07-04 15:56:33 +02:00

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// Package luhn generates and validates Luhn mod N check digits.
package luhn
import "strings"
// An alphabet is a string of N characters, representing the digits of a given
// base N.
type Alphabet string
var (
Base32 Alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567"
)
// Generate returns a check digit for the string s, which should be composed
// of characters from the Alphabet a.
func (a Alphabet) Generate(s string) rune {
factor := 1
sum := 0
n := len(a)
for i := range s {
codepoint := strings.IndexByte(string(a), s[i])
addend := factor * codepoint
if factor == 2 {
factor = 1
} else {
factor = 2
}
addend = (addend / n) + (addend % n)
sum += addend
}
remainder := sum % n
checkCodepoint := (n - remainder) % n
return rune(a[checkCodepoint])
}
// Validate returns true if the last character of the string s is correct, for
// a string s composed of characters in the alphabet a.
func (a Alphabet) Validate(s string) bool {
t := s[:len(s)-1]
c := a.Generate(t)
return rune(s[len(s)-1]) == c
}