diff --git a/compute/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ssh/SshKeys.java b/compute/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ssh/SshKeys.java
index 2ce55f02a9..ef6aac1a40 100644
--- a/compute/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ssh/SshKeys.java
+++ b/compute/src/main/java/org/jclouds/ssh/SshKeys.java
@@ -50,14 +50,15 @@ import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.jclouds.crypto.Crypto;
 import org.jclouds.crypto.Pems;
-import org.jclouds.io.InputSuppliers;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
 import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap.Builder;
 import com.google.common.hash.HashCode;
 import com.google.common.hash.Hashing;
+import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
 import com.google.common.io.InputSupplier;
 
 /**
@@ -81,7 +82,8 @@ public class SshKeys {
     */
    public static RSAPublicKeySpec publicKeySpecFromOpenSSH(String idRsaPub) {
       try {
-         return publicKeySpecFromOpenSSH(InputSuppliers.of(idRsaPub));
+         return publicKeySpecFromOpenSSH(ByteStreams.newInputStreamSupplier(
+            idRsaPub.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)));
       } catch (IOException e) {
          throw propagate(e);
       }
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/crypto/Pems.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/crypto/Pems.java
index 6297d760de..0e778917c7 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/crypto/Pems.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/crypto/Pems.java
@@ -53,14 +53,15 @@ import java.security.spec.RSAPrivateKeySpec;
 import java.security.spec.X509EncodedKeySpec;
 import java.util.Map;
 
-import org.jclouds.io.InputSuppliers;
 import org.jclouds.javax.annotation.Nullable;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
+import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import com.google.common.base.Optional;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.common.io.ByteProcessor;
+import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
 import com.google.common.io.InputSupplier;
 
 /**
@@ -255,7 +256,8 @@ public class Pems {
     */
    public static KeySpec privateKeySpec(String pem) {
       try {
-         return privateKeySpec(InputSuppliers.of(pem));
+         return privateKeySpec(ByteStreams.newInputStreamSupplier(
+            pem.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)));
       } catch (IOException e) {
          throw propagate(e);
       }
@@ -314,7 +316,8 @@ public class Pems {
     * @see Pems#publicKeySpec(InputSupplier)
     */
    public static KeySpec publicKeySpec(String pem) throws IOException {
-      return publicKeySpec(InputSuppliers.of(pem));
+      return publicKeySpec(ByteStreams.newInputStreamSupplier(
+         pem.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)));
    }
 
    /**
@@ -364,7 +367,8 @@ public class Pems {
     * @see Pems#x509Certificate(InputSupplier, CertificateFactory)
     */
    public static X509Certificate x509Certificate(String pem) throws IOException, CertificateException {
-      return x509Certificate(InputSuppliers.of(pem), null);
+      return x509Certificate(ByteStreams.newInputStreamSupplier(
+         pem.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8)), null);
    }
 
    /**
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/InputSuppliers.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/InputSuppliers.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 15c2ae3d9e..0000000000
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/io/InputSuppliers.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/**
- * Licensed to jclouds, Inc. (jclouds) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  jclouds licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.jclouds.io;
-
-import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
-
-import java.io.InputStream;
-
-import com.google.common.annotations.Beta;
-import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
-import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
-import com.google.common.io.InputSupplier;
-
-/**
- * functions related to or replacing those in {@link com.google.common.io.InputSupplier}
- * 
- * @author Adrian Cole
- */
-@Beta
-public class InputSuppliers {
-   
-   public static InputSupplier<? extends InputStream> of(String in) {
-      byte[] bytes = checkNotNull(in, "in").getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8);
-      return ByteStreams.newInputStreamSupplier(bytes);
-   }
-}