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package org.sector67.otp.encoding;
/**
* An interface designed to encapsulate operations to make various text encoders pluggable. For instance you might
* have a base64 encoder, a base16 encoder and a dictionary words encoder (alpha, bravo, etc. to represent bytes).
*
* @author scott.hasse@gmail.com
*
*/
public interface TextEncoder {
public String encode(byte[] input) throws EncodingException;
public byte[] decode(String input) throws EncodingException;
}