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+// Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
+package com.yahoo.security;
+
+/**
+ * Base58 encoding using the alphabet standardized by Bitcoin et al., which avoids
+ * the use of characters [0OIl] to avoid visual ambiguity. It does not feature any
+ * potential word/line-breaking characters, which means encoded strings can usually
+ * be selected in one go on web pages or in the terminal.
+ *
+ * @see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base58">Base58 on Wiki</a>
+ *
+ * @author vekterli
+ */
+public class Base58 {
+
+    private static final BaseNCodec INSTANCE = BaseNCodec.of("123456789ABCDEFGHJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz");
+
+    public static BaseNCodec codec() {
+        return INSTANCE;
+    }
+
+}