Name

Class java.security.spec.EncodedKeySpec

Description

This class is used to translate between keys and their external encoded format. The encoded format is always simply a series of bytes, but the format of the encoding of the key information into those bytes may vary depending on the algorithm used to generate the key.

Class Definition

public abstract class java.security.spec.EncodedKeySpec
  extends java.lang.Object
  implements java.security.spec.KeySpec {

  // Constructors
  public EncodedKeySpec();

  // Instance Methods
  public abstract byte[] getEncoded();
  public abstract String getFormat();
}

See Also

KeyFactory, KeySpec, PKCS8EncodedKeySpec, X509EncodedKeySpec

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