Some Kotlin standard library APIs look natural to be integrated with ByteStings: - Base64 (https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.io.encoding/-base64/) - HexFormat (https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/libraries/stdlib/src/kotlin/text/HexFormat.kt) The kx-io library should provide extensions facilitating use of ByteString with these APIs.