/*
* @(#)PKCS8EncodedKeySpec.java 1.19 03/12/19
*
* Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
* SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
*/
package java.security.spec;
/**
* This class represents the ASN.1 encoding of a private key,
* encoded according to the ASN.1 type PrivateKeyInfo
.
* The PrivateKeyInfo
syntax is defined in the PKCS#8 standard
* as follows:
*
*
* PrivateKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE { * version Version, * privateKeyAlgorithm PrivateKeyAlgorithmIdentifier, * privateKey PrivateKey, * attributes [0] IMPLICIT Attributes OPTIONAL } * * Version ::= INTEGER * * PrivateKeyAlgorithmIdentifier ::= AlgorithmIdentifier * * PrivateKey ::= OCTET STRING * * Attributes ::= SET OF Attribute ** * @author Jan Luehe * * @version 1.19, 12/19/03 * * @see java.security.Key * @see java.security.KeyFactory * @see KeySpec * @see EncodedKeySpec * @see X509EncodedKeySpec * * @since 1.2 */ public class PKCS8EncodedKeySpec extends EncodedKeySpec { /** * Creates a new PKCS8EncodedKeySpec with the given encoded key. * * @param encodedKey the key, which is assumed to be * encoded according to the PKCS #8 standard. The contents of * the array are copied to protect against subsequent modification. */ public PKCS8EncodedKeySpec(byte[] encodedKey) { super(encodedKey); } /** * Returns the key bytes, encoded according to the PKCS #8 standard. * * @return the PKCS #8 encoding of the key. Returns a new array * each time this method is called. */ public byte[] getEncoded() { return super.getEncoded(); } /** * Returns the name of the encoding format associated with this * key specification. * * @return the string
"PKCS#8"
.
*/
public final String getFormat() {
return "PKCS#8";
}
}