*/
    private Base64() {
        // Utility class - not instantiable
    }

    private static final String ALPHABET = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";

    /**
     * Base-64 encodes the supplied block of data.  Line wrapping is not
     * applied on output.
     *
     * @param bytes The block of data that is to be Base-64 encoded.