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+.TH LIBRECRYPT_ENCODE 3 LIBRECRYPT
+.SH NAME
+librecrypt_encode - Encode binary salt or hash result into ASCII
+
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+#include <librecrypt.h>
+
+size_t \fBlibrecrypt_encode\fP(char *\fIout_buffer\fP, size_t \fIsize\fP,
+                         const void *\fIbinary\fP, size_t \fIlen\fP,
+                         const char \fIlut\fP[restrict static 256], char \fIpad\fP);
+.fi
+.PP
+Link with
+.IR -lrecrypt .
+
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.BR librecrypt_encode ()
+function encodes
+.I len
+bytes of binary data from
+.IR binary
+into an ASCII representation written to
+.IR out_buffer .
+This is used for encoding hash results and salts.
+.PP
+The
+.I lut
+argument is an encoding alphabet, consisting
+of 64 characters, repeated 4 times.
+.PP
+The
+.I pad
+argument specifies the padding character to
+use at the end, or the null byte if none.
+.PP
+On successful completion, up to
+.I size
+bytes are written to
+.IR out_buffer ;
+if
+.I size
+is positive, the output is always
+null byte-terminated even if truncated.
+.PP
+The return value is the number of bytes
+that would have been written, excluding
+the terminating null byte, if
+.I size
+was sufficiently large.
+
+.SH RETURN VALUES
+The
+.BR librecrypt_encode ()
+function returns the number of bytes that
+would have been written to
+.IR out_buffer ,
+excluding the terminating null byte.
+
+.SH ERRORS
+The
+.BR librecrypt_encode ()
+function cannot fail.
+
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see
+.BR attributes (7).
+.PP
+.TS
+allbox;
+lb lb lb
+l l l.
+Interface	Attribute	Value
+T{
+.BR librecrypt_encode ()
+T}	Thread safety	MT-Safe
+T{
+.BR librecrypt_encode ()
+T}	Async-signal safety	AS-Safe
+.TE
+.sp
+
+.SH HISTORY
+The
+.BR librecrypt_encode ()
+function was introduced in version 1.0 of
+.BR librecrypt .
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR librecrypt (7),
+.BR librecrypt_decode (3),
+.BR librecrypt_get_encoding (3)