c++ 11 encoding and decoding base64

base64_encode_decode.cpp

//FROM
//https://stackoverflow.com/a/34571089/5155484

typedef unsigned char uchar;
static const std::string b = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";//=
static std::string base64_encode(const std::string &in) {
    std::string out;

    int val=0, valb=-6;
    for (uchar c : in) {
        val = (val<<8) + c;
        valb += 8;
        while (valb>=0) {
            out.push_back(b[(val>>valb)&0x3F]);
            valb-=6;
        }
    }
    if (valb>-6) out.push_back(b[((val<<8)>>(valb+8))&0x3F]);
    while (out.size()%4) out.push_back('=');
    return out;
}


static std::string base64_decode(const std::string &in) {

    std::string out;

    std::vector<int> T(256,-1);
    for (int i=0; i<64; i++) T[b[i]] = i;

    int val=0, valb=-8;
    for (uchar c : in) {
        if (T[c] == -1) break;
        val = (val<<6) + T[c];
        valb += 6;
        if (valb>=0) {
            out.push_back(char((val>>valb)&0xFF));
            valb-=8;
        }
    }
    return out;
}

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