diff --git a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
index becf9c2c0..aeab77705 100644
--- a/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uucore/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ authors = []
 [dependencies]
 libc = "*"
 winapi = "*"
+data-encoding = "^1.1"
 
 [lib]
 path = "lib.rs"
diff --git a/src/uucore/encoding.rs b/src/uucore/encoding.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e2273c25
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/uucore/encoding.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+// This file is part of the uutils coreutils package.
+//
+// (c) Jian Zeng <anonymousknight96@gmail.com>
+//
+// For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
+// file that was distributed with this source code.
+//
+
+extern crate data_encoding;
+use self::data_encoding::{base64, base32, decode};
+use std::io::Read;
+
+pub type DecodeResult = Result<Vec<u8>, decode::Error>;
+
+#[derive(Clone, Copy)]
+pub enum Format {
+    Base32,
+    Base64,
+}
+use self::Format::*;
+
+pub fn encode(f: Format, input: &[u8]) -> String {
+    match f {
+        Base32 => base32::encode(input),
+        Base64 => base64::encode(input),
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn decode(f: Format, input: &[u8]) -> DecodeResult {
+    match f {
+        Base32 => base32::decode(input),
+        Base64 => base64::decode(input),
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct Data<R: Read> {
+    line_wrap: usize,
+    ignore_garbage: bool,
+    input: R,
+    format: Format,
+    alphabet: &'static str,
+}
+
+impl<R: Read> Data<R> {
+    pub fn new(input: R, format: Format) -> Self {
+        Data {
+            line_wrap: 76,
+            ignore_garbage: false,
+            input: input,
+            format: format,
+            alphabet: match format {
+                Base32 => "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ234567=",
+                Base64 => "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789=+/",
+            },
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn line_wrap(mut self, wrap: usize) -> Self {
+        self.line_wrap = wrap;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn ignore_garbage(mut self, ignore: bool) -> Self {
+        self.ignore_garbage = ignore;
+        self
+    }
+
+    pub fn decode(&mut self) -> DecodeResult {
+        let mut buf = String::new();
+        self.input.read_to_string(&mut buf).unwrap();
+        let clean = if self.ignore_garbage {
+            buf.chars()
+               .filter(|&c| self.alphabet.contains(c))
+               .collect::<String>()
+        } else {
+            buf.chars()
+               .filter(|&c| c != '\r' && c != '\n')
+               .collect::<String>()
+        };
+        decode(self.format, clean.as_bytes())
+    }
+
+    pub fn encode(&mut self) -> String {
+        let mut buf: Vec<u8> = vec![];
+        self.input.read_to_end(&mut buf).unwrap();
+        encode(self.format, buf.as_slice())
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn wrap_print(line_wrap: usize, res: String) {
+    if line_wrap == 0 {
+        return print!("{}", res);
+    }
+    use std::cmp::min;
+    let mut start = 0;
+    while start < res.len() {
+        let end = min(start + line_wrap, res.len());
+        println!("{}", &res[start..end]);
+        start = end;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/uucore/lib.rs b/src/uucore/lib.rs
index 00f9f924c..d61d93516 100644
--- a/src/uucore/lib.rs
+++ b/src/uucore/lib.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ mod macros;
 pub mod fs;
 pub mod parse_time;
 pub mod utf8;
+pub mod encoding;
 
 #[cfg(unix)] pub mod c_types;
 #[cfg(unix)] pub mod process;