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package com.google.polo.encoding;

import com.google.polo.pairing.PoloUtil;

/**
 * A {@link SecretEncoder} for the hexadecimal secret encoding scheme.
 */
public class HexadecimalEncoder implements SecretEncoder {

  public static final int SYMBOLS_PER_BYTE = 2;

  public byte[] decodeToBytes(String encodedString) {
    return PoloUtil.hexStringToBytes(encodedString);
  }

  public String encodeToString(byte[] secretBytes) {
    return PoloUtil.bytesToHexString(secretBytes).toLowerCase();
  }

  public int symbolsPerByte() {
    return SYMBOLS_PER_BYTE;
  }

}