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package java.security.spec;
/**
* This class represents the ASN.1 encoding of a public key,
* encoded according to the ASN.1 type {@code SubjectPublicKeyInfo}.
* The {@code SubjectPublicKeyInfo} syntax is defined in the X.509
* standard as follows:
*
* <pre>
* SubjectPublicKeyInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
* algorithm AlgorithmIdentifier,
* subjectPublicKey BIT STRING }
* </pre>
*
* @author Jan Luehe
*
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* @see java.security.Key
* @see java.security.KeyFactory
* @see KeySpec
* @see EncodedKeySpec
* @see PKCS8EncodedKeySpec
*
* @since 1.2
*/
public class
X509EncodedKeySpec extends
EncodedKeySpec {
/**
* Creates a new X509EncodedKeySpec with the given encoded key.
*
* @param encodedKey the key, which is assumed to be
* encoded according to the X.509 standard. The contents of the
* array are copied to protect against subsequent modification.
* @exception NullPointerException if {@code encodedKey}
* is null.
*/
public
X509EncodedKeySpec(byte[]
encodedKey) {
super(
encodedKey);
}
/**
* Returns the key bytes, encoded according to the X.509 standard.
*
* @return the X.509 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 {@code "X.509"}.
*/
public final
String getFormat() {
return "X.509";
}
}