*/
    public String encryptToString(char[] plaintext) throws GeneralSecurityException {
        byte[] encrypted = encryptCredentials(plaintext);
        return Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(encrypted);
    }

    /**
     * Decrypt credentials from a base64 string
     *
     * @param encryptedString base64 encoded encrypted credentials
     * @return decrypted credentials

		if err != nil {
			logger.CriticalIf(GlobalContext, err)
		}
		sum256 := sha256.Sum256(payload)
		r.Body = io.NopCloser(bytes.NewReader(payload))
		return hex.EncodeToString(sum256[:])
	}

	var (
		defaultSha256Cksum string
		v                  []string
		ok                 bool
	)

	// For a presigned request we look at the query param for sha256.

     */
    public static String base64(final String value) {
        if (value == null) {
            return StringUtil.EMPTY;
        }
        return Base64.getUrlEncoder().encodeToString(value.getBytes(Constants.CHARSET_UTF_8));
    }

    /**
     * Checks if a file exists at the specified path within the servlet context.
     *
     * @param path the file path relative to the servlet context

	region := sumHMAC(date, []byte(globalMinioDefaultRegion))
	service := sumHMAC(region, []byte(string(serviceS3)))
	signingKey := sumHMAC(service, []byte("aws4_request"))

	signature := hex.EncodeToString(sumHMAC(signingKey, []byte(stringToSign)))

	// final Authorization header
	parts := []string{
		"AWS4-HMAC-SHA256" + " Credential=" + accessKey + SlashSeparator + scope,
		"SignedHeaders=" + signedHeaders,

func (c ChecksumInfo) MarshalJSON() ([]byte, error) {
	info := checksumInfoJSON{
		Name:      fmt.Sprintf("part.%d", c.PartNumber),
		Algorithm: c.Algorithm.String(),
		Hash:      hex.EncodeToString(c.Hash),
	}
	return json.Marshal(info)
}

// UnmarshalJSON - custom checksum info unmarshaller
func (c *ChecksumInfo) UnmarshalJSON(data []byte) error {
	var info checksumInfoJSON

			cfg.Azure.SPAuth.ClientSecret = creds.AzSP.ClientSecret
		}
	case madmin.GCS:
		if creds.CredsJSON == nil {
			return errTierMissingCredentials
		}
		cfg.GCS.Creds = base64.URLEncoding.EncodeToString(creds.CredsJSON)
	case madmin.MinIO:
		if creds.AccessKey == "" || creds.SecretKey == "" {
			return errTierMissingCredentials
		}
		cfg.MinIO.AccessKey = creds.AccessKey
		cfg.MinIO.SecretKey = creds.SecretKey

	}
	uploadID := res.UploadID

	// Upload part1.
	fiveMBBytes := bytes.Repeat([]byte("a"), 5*humanize.MiByte)
	md5Writer := md5.New()
	md5Writer.Write(fiveMBBytes)
	etag1 := hex.EncodeToString(md5Writer.Sum(nil))
	sha256sum := ""
	_, err = obj.PutObjectPart(context.Background(), bucket, object, uploadID, 1, mustGetPutObjReader(t, bytes.NewReader(fiveMBBytes), int64(len(fiveMBBytes)), etag1, sha256sum), opts)

	}
	return ErrNone
}

func calculateSignatureV2(stringToSign string, secret string) string {
	hm := hmac.New(sha1.New, []byte(secret))
	hm.Write([]byte(stringToSign))
	return base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(hm.Sum(nil))
}

// Return signature-v2 for the presigned request.
func preSignatureV2(cred auth.Credentials, method string, encodedResource string, encodedQuery string, headers http.Header, expires string) string {

		if err != nil {
			writeErrorResponse(ctx, w, toAPIError(ctx, err), r.URL)
			return
		}

		// Set the correct hex md5sum for the fan-out stream.
		fanOutOpts.MD5Hex = hex.EncodeToString(md5w.Sum(nil))

		concurrentSize := min(runtime.GOMAXPROCS(0), 100)

		fanOutResp := make([]minio.PutObjectFanOutResponse, 0, len(fanOutEntries))
		eventArgsList := make([]eventArgs, 0, len(fanOutEntries))

        switch (form.crudMode) {
        case CrudMode.CREATE:
            return OptionalEntity.of(new Group()).map(entity -> {
                entity.setId(Base64.getUrlEncoder().encodeToString(form.name.getBytes(Constants.CHARSET_UTF_8)));
                return entity;
            });
        case CrudMode.EDIT:
            if (form instanceof EditForm) {