diff --git a/dist/index.js b/dist/index.js
index 5924e64..2a29e8a 100644
--- a/dist/index.js
+++ b/dist/index.js
@@ -61797,11 +61797,310 @@ function collect_all(debug = false, output = false) {
 
 // EXTERNAL MODULE: external "fs"
 var external_fs_ = __nccwpck_require__(7147);
+;// CONCATENATED MODULE: ./node_modules/js-base64/base64.mjs
+/**
+ *  base64.ts
+ *
+ *  Licensed under the BSD 3-Clause License.
+ *    http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
+ *
+ *  References:
+ *    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
+ *
+ * @author Dan Kogai (https://github.com/dankogai)
+ */
+const version = '3.7.5';
+/**
+ * @deprecated use lowercase `version`.
+ */
+const VERSION = version;
+const _hasatob = typeof atob === 'function';
+const _hasbtoa = typeof btoa === 'function';
+const _hasBuffer = typeof Buffer === 'function';
+const _TD = typeof TextDecoder === 'function' ? new TextDecoder() : undefined;
+const _TE = typeof TextEncoder === 'function' ? new TextEncoder() : undefined;
+const b64ch = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/=';
+const b64chs = Array.prototype.slice.call(b64ch);
+const b64tab = ((a) => {
+    let tab = {};
+    a.forEach((c, i) => tab[c] = i);
+    return tab;
+})(b64chs);
+const b64re = /^(?:[A-Za-z\d+\/]{4})*?(?:[A-Za-z\d+\/]{2}(?:==)?|[A-Za-z\d+\/]{3}=?)?$/;
+const _fromCC = String.fromCharCode.bind(String);
+const _U8Afrom = typeof Uint8Array.from === 'function'
+    ? Uint8Array.from.bind(Uint8Array)
+    : (it) => new Uint8Array(Array.prototype.slice.call(it, 0));
+const _mkUriSafe = (src) => src
+    .replace(/=/g, '').replace(/[+\/]/g, (m0) => m0 == '+' ? '-' : '_');
+const _tidyB64 = (s) => s.replace(/[^A-Za-z0-9\+\/]/g, '');
+/**
+ * polyfill version of `btoa`
+ */
+const btoaPolyfill = (bin) => {
+    // console.log('polyfilled');
+    let u32, c0, c1, c2, asc = '';
+    const pad = bin.length % 3;
+    for (let i = 0; i < bin.length;) {
+        if ((c0 = bin.charCodeAt(i++)) > 255 ||
+            (c1 = bin.charCodeAt(i++)) > 255 ||
+            (c2 = bin.charCodeAt(i++)) > 255)
+            throw new TypeError('invalid character found');
+        u32 = (c0 << 16) | (c1 << 8) | c2;
+        asc += b64chs[u32 >> 18 & 63]
+            + b64chs[u32 >> 12 & 63]
+            + b64chs[u32 >> 6 & 63]
+            + b64chs[u32 & 63];
+    }
+    return pad ? asc.slice(0, pad - 3) + "===".substring(pad) : asc;
+};
+/**
+ * does what `window.btoa` of web browsers do.
+ * @param {String} bin binary string
+ * @returns {string} Base64-encoded string
+ */
+const _btoa = _hasbtoa ? (bin) => btoa(bin)
+    : _hasBuffer ? (bin) => Buffer.from(bin, 'binary').toString('base64')
+        : btoaPolyfill;
+const _fromUint8Array = _hasBuffer
+    ? (u8a) => Buffer.from(u8a).toString('base64')
+    : (u8a) => {
+        // cf. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12710001/how-to-convert-uint8-array-to-base64-encoded-string/12713326#12713326
+        const maxargs = 0x1000;
+        let strs = [];
+        for (let i = 0, l = u8a.length; i < l; i += maxargs) {
+            strs.push(_fromCC.apply(null, u8a.subarray(i, i + maxargs)));
+        }
+        return _btoa(strs.join(''));
+    };
+/**
+ * converts a Uint8Array to a Base64 string.
+ * @param {boolean} [urlsafe] URL-and-filename-safe a la RFC4648 §5
+ * @returns {string} Base64 string
+ */
+const fromUint8Array = (u8a, urlsafe = false) => urlsafe ? _mkUriSafe(_fromUint8Array(u8a)) : _fromUint8Array(u8a);
+// This trick is found broken https://github.com/dankogai/js-base64/issues/130
+// const utob = (src: string) => unescape(encodeURIComponent(src));
+// reverting good old fationed regexp
+const cb_utob = (c) => {
+    if (c.length < 2) {
+        var cc = c.charCodeAt(0);
+        return cc < 0x80 ? c
+            : cc < 0x800 ? (_fromCC(0xc0 | (cc >>> 6))
+                + _fromCC(0x80 | (cc & 0x3f)))
+                : (_fromCC(0xe0 | ((cc >>> 12) & 0x0f))
+                    + _fromCC(0x80 | ((cc >>> 6) & 0x3f))
+                    + _fromCC(0x80 | (cc & 0x3f)));
+    }
+    else {
+        var cc = 0x10000
+            + (c.charCodeAt(0) - 0xD800) * 0x400
+            + (c.charCodeAt(1) - 0xDC00);
+        return (_fromCC(0xf0 | ((cc >>> 18) & 0x07))
+            + _fromCC(0x80 | ((cc >>> 12) & 0x3f))
+            + _fromCC(0x80 | ((cc >>> 6) & 0x3f))
+            + _fromCC(0x80 | (cc & 0x3f)));
+    }
+};
+const re_utob = /[\uD800-\uDBFF][\uDC00-\uDFFFF]|[^\x00-\x7F]/g;
+/**
+ * @deprecated should have been internal use only.
+ * @param {string} src UTF-8 string
+ * @returns {string} UTF-16 string
+ */
+const utob = (u) => u.replace(re_utob, cb_utob);
+//
+const _encode = _hasBuffer
+    ? (s) => Buffer.from(s, 'utf8').toString('base64')
+    : _TE
+        ? (s) => _fromUint8Array(_TE.encode(s))
+        : (s) => _btoa(utob(s));
+/**
+ * converts a UTF-8-encoded string to a Base64 string.
+ * @param {boolean} [urlsafe] if `true` make the result URL-safe
+ * @returns {string} Base64 string
+ */
+const encode = (src, urlsafe = false) => urlsafe
+    ? _mkUriSafe(_encode(src))
+    : _encode(src);
+/**
+ * converts a UTF-8-encoded string to URL-safe Base64 RFC4648 §5.
+ * @returns {string} Base64 string
+ */
+const base64_encodeURI = (src) => encode(src, true);
+// This trick is found broken https://github.com/dankogai/js-base64/issues/130
+// const btou = (src: string) => decodeURIComponent(escape(src));
+// reverting good old fationed regexp
+const re_btou = /[\xC0-\xDF][\x80-\xBF]|[\xE0-\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2}|[\xF0-\xF7][\x80-\xBF]{3}/g;
+const cb_btou = (cccc) => {
+    switch (cccc.length) {
+        case 4:
+            var cp = ((0x07 & cccc.charCodeAt(0)) << 18)
+                | ((0x3f & cccc.charCodeAt(1)) << 12)
+                | ((0x3f & cccc.charCodeAt(2)) << 6)
+                | (0x3f & cccc.charCodeAt(3)), offset = cp - 0x10000;
+            return (_fromCC((offset >>> 10) + 0xD800)
+                + _fromCC((offset & 0x3FF) + 0xDC00));
+        case 3:
+            return _fromCC(((0x0f & cccc.charCodeAt(0)) << 12)
+                | ((0x3f & cccc.charCodeAt(1)) << 6)
+                | (0x3f & cccc.charCodeAt(2)));
+        default:
+            return _fromCC(((0x1f & cccc.charCodeAt(0)) << 6)
+                | (0x3f & cccc.charCodeAt(1)));
+    }
+};
+/**
+ * @deprecated should have been internal use only.
+ * @param {string} src UTF-16 string
+ * @returns {string} UTF-8 string
+ */
+const btou = (b) => b.replace(re_btou, cb_btou);
+/**
+ * polyfill version of `atob`
+ */
+const atobPolyfill = (asc) => {
+    // console.log('polyfilled');
+    asc = asc.replace(/\s+/g, '');
+    if (!b64re.test(asc))
+        throw new TypeError('malformed base64.');
+    asc += '=='.slice(2 - (asc.length & 3));
+    let u24, bin = '', r1, r2;
+    for (let i = 0; i < asc.length;) {
+        u24 = b64tab[asc.charAt(i++)] << 18
+            | b64tab[asc.charAt(i++)] << 12
+            | (r1 = b64tab[asc.charAt(i++)]) << 6
+            | (r2 = b64tab[asc.charAt(i++)]);
+        bin += r1 === 64 ? _fromCC(u24 >> 16 & 255)
+            : r2 === 64 ? _fromCC(u24 >> 16 & 255, u24 >> 8 & 255)
+                : _fromCC(u24 >> 16 & 255, u24 >> 8 & 255, u24 & 255);
+    }
+    return bin;
+};
+/**
+ * does what `window.atob` of web browsers do.
+ * @param {String} asc Base64-encoded string
+ * @returns {string} binary string
+ */
+const _atob = _hasatob ? (asc) => atob(_tidyB64(asc))
+    : _hasBuffer ? (asc) => Buffer.from(asc, 'base64').toString('binary')
+        : atobPolyfill;
+//
+const _toUint8Array = _hasBuffer
+    ? (a) => _U8Afrom(Buffer.from(a, 'base64'))
+    : (a) => _U8Afrom(_atob(a).split('').map(c => c.charCodeAt(0)));
+/**
+ * converts a Base64 string to a Uint8Array.
+ */
+const toUint8Array = (a) => _toUint8Array(_unURI(a));
+//
+const _decode = _hasBuffer
+    ? (a) => Buffer.from(a, 'base64').toString('utf8')
+    : _TD
+        ? (a) => _TD.decode(_toUint8Array(a))
+        : (a) => btou(_atob(a));
+const _unURI = (a) => _tidyB64(a.replace(/[-_]/g, (m0) => m0 == '-' ? '+' : '/'));
+/**
+ * converts a Base64 string to a UTF-8 string.
+ * @param {String} src Base64 string.  Both normal and URL-safe are supported
+ * @returns {string} UTF-8 string
+ */
+const decode = (src) => _decode(_unURI(src));
+/**
+ * check if a value is a valid Base64 string
+ * @param {String} src a value to check
+  */
+const isValid = (src) => {
+    if (typeof src !== 'string')
+        return false;
+    const s = src.replace(/\s+/g, '').replace(/={0,2}$/, '');
+    return !/[^\s0-9a-zA-Z\+/]/.test(s) || !/[^\s0-9a-zA-Z\-_]/.test(s);
+};
+//
+const _noEnum = (v) => {
+    return {
+        value: v, enumerable: false, writable: true, configurable: true
+    };
+};
+/**
+ * extend String.prototype with relevant methods
+ */
+const extendString = function () {
+    const _add = (name, body) => Object.defineProperty(String.prototype, name, _noEnum(body));
+    _add('fromBase64', function () { return decode(this); });
+    _add('toBase64', function (urlsafe) { return encode(this, urlsafe); });
+    _add('toBase64URI', function () { return encode(this, true); });
+    _add('toBase64URL', function () { return encode(this, true); });
+    _add('toUint8Array', function () { return toUint8Array(this); });
+};
+/**
+ * extend Uint8Array.prototype with relevant methods
+ */
+const extendUint8Array = function () {
+    const _add = (name, body) => Object.defineProperty(Uint8Array.prototype, name, _noEnum(body));
+    _add('toBase64', function (urlsafe) { return fromUint8Array(this, urlsafe); });
+    _add('toBase64URI', function () { return fromUint8Array(this, true); });
+    _add('toBase64URL', function () { return fromUint8Array(this, true); });
+};
+/**
+ * extend Builtin prototypes with relevant methods
+ */
+const extendBuiltins = () => {
+    extendString();
+    extendUint8Array();
+};
+const gBase64 = {
+    version: version,
+    VERSION: VERSION,
+    atob: _atob,
+    atobPolyfill: atobPolyfill,
+    btoa: _btoa,
+    btoaPolyfill: btoaPolyfill,
+    fromBase64: decode,
+    toBase64: encode,
+    encode: encode,
+    encodeURI: base64_encodeURI,
+    encodeURL: base64_encodeURI,
+    utob: utob,
+    btou: btou,
+    decode: decode,
+    isValid: isValid,
+    fromUint8Array: fromUint8Array,
+    toUint8Array: toUint8Array,
+    extendString: extendString,
+    extendUint8Array: extendUint8Array,
+    extendBuiltins: extendBuiltins,
+};
+// makecjs:CUT //
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+// and finally,
+
+
 ;// CONCATENATED MODULE: ./src/lib.js
 
 
 
 
+
 function processAdditionalRegistries(targetRegistries) {
   const additionalRegistries = core.getInput('additional_registries');
   if (additionalRegistries != null && additionalRegistries.length > 0) {
@@ -61839,9 +62138,7 @@ function addCiRegistryAuth(ci_registry, registryAuthJson) {
     return;
   }
 
-  registryAuthJson.auths[ci_registry] = base64ToBytes(
-    'token:' + argCiRegistryPassword
-  );
+  registryAuthJson.auths[ci_registry] = gBase64.encode('token:' + argCiRegistryPassword);
 }
 
 function mergeArgRegistryAuthJson(registryAuthJson) {
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index a014807..77b7284 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
       "dependencies": {
         "@actions/core": "^1.10.1",
         "@actions/github": "^6.0.0",
-        "information": "file:../information"
+        "information": "file:../information",
+        "js-base64": "^3.7.5"
       },
       "devDependencies": {
         "@babel/core": "^7.23.5",
@@ -15480,6 +15481,11 @@
         "node": ">=8"
       }
     },
+    "node_modules/js-base64": {
+      "version": "3.7.5",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/js-base64/-/js-base64-3.7.5.tgz",
+      "integrity": "sha512-3MEt5DTINKqfScXKfJFrRbxkrnk2AxPWGBL/ycjz4dK8iqiSJ06UxD8jh8xuh6p10TX4t2+7FsBYVxxQbMg+qA=="
+    },
     "node_modules/js-tokens": {
       "version": "4.0.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/js-tokens/-/js-tokens-4.0.0.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b406d7f..1c79be8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "@actions/core": "^1.10.1",
     "@actions/github": "^6.0.0",
-    "information": "file:../information"
+    "information": "file:../information",
+    "js-base64": "^3.7.5"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@babel/core": "^7.23.5",
diff --git a/src/lib.js b/src/lib.js
index e4b1cba..ddd8224 100644
--- a/src/lib.js
+++ b/src/lib.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import * as core from '@actions/core';
 import * as github from '@actions/github';
 import * as fs from 'fs';
+import {Base64} from 'js-base64';
 
 export function processAdditionalRegistries(targetRegistries) {
   const additionalRegistries = core.getInput('additional_registries');
@@ -39,9 +40,7 @@ export function addCiRegistryAuth(ci_registry, registryAuthJson) {
     return;
   }
 
-  registryAuthJson.auths[ci_registry] = base64ToBytes(
-    'token:' + argCiRegistryPassword
-  );
+  registryAuthJson.auths[ci_registry] = Base64.encode('token:' + argCiRegistryPassword);
 }
 
 export function mergeArgRegistryAuthJson(registryAuthJson) {