JOSE Base64

JOSE Base64 is defined as:

  • URL-safe Base64

  • padding stripped

josepy.b64.b64encode(data: bytes) → bytes[source]

JOSE Base64 encode.

Parameters

data (bytes) – Data to be encoded.

Returns

JOSE Base64 string.

Return type

bytes

Raises

TypeError – if data is of incorrect type

josepy.b64.b64decode(data: Union[bytes, str]) → bytes[source]

JOSE Base64 decode.

Parameters

data (bytes or unicode) – Base64 string to be decoded. If it’s unicode, then only ASCII characters are allowed.

Returns

Decoded data.

Return type

bytes

Raises

  • TypeError – if input is of incorrect type

  • ValueError – if input is unicode with non-ASCII characters