private static String generateEncoded(final byte version, final byte[] publicKey) {
// step 1: sha3 hash of the public key
final byte[] sha3PublicKeyHash = Hashes.sha3_256(publicKey);
// step 2: ripemd160 hash of (1)
final byte[] ripemd160StepOneHash = Hashes.ripemd160(sha3PublicKeyHash);
// step 3: store version byte in front of (2)
final byte[] versionPrefixedRipemd160Hash =
ArrayUtils.concat(new byte[] {version}, ripemd160StepOneHash);
// step 4: get the checksum of (3)
final byte[] stepThreeChecksum = generateChecksum(versionPrefixedRipemd160Hash);
// step 5: concatenate (3) and (4)
final byte[] concatStepThreeAndStepSix =
ArrayUtils.concat(versionPrefixedRipemd160Hash, stepThreeChecksum);
// step 6: base32 encode (5)
return Base32Encoder.getString(concatStepThreeAndStepSix);
}
