Programming with GNU Crypto 2.0.0

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The IKeyPairCodec Interface

A key pair codec is used to externalize and de-externalize the key pairs used in GNU Crypto. There is no factory class, but rather the implementations have public, zero-argument constructors. The available codecs are:

gnu.crypto.key.dh.DHKeyPairRawCodec, for encoding and decoding Diffie-Hellman key pairs.
gnu.crypto.key.dss.DSSKeyPairRawCodec, for encoding and decoding DSS key pairs.
gnu.crypto.key.rsa.RSAKeyPairRawCodec, for encoding and decoding RSA key pairs.
gnu.crypto.key.srp6.SRPKeyPairRawCodec, for encoding and decoding SRP key pairs.

int RAW_FORMAT Variable

Constant identifying the "raw" format used by GNU Crypto.

java.security.PrivateKey decodePrivateKey(byte[]encoded) Function

Decodes a private key from its external representation, returning it as an appropriate instance of java.security.PrivateKey. This function will throw a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if the encoded bytes cannot be decoded or are incorrect.

java.security.PublicKey decodePublicKey(byte[]encoded) Function

Decodes a public key from its external representation, returning it as an appropriate instance of java.security.PublicKey. This function will throw a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if the encoded bytes cannot be decoded or are incorrect.

byte [] encodePrivateKey (java.security.PrivateKey key) Function

Encodes a private key to its external representation, returning the encoded bytes. This function will throw a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if the key cannot be encoded by this instance.

byte [] encodePublicKey (java.security.PublicKey key) Function

Encodes a public key to its external representation, returning the encoded bytes. This function will throw a java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if the key cannot be encoded by this instance.

int getFormatID() Function

Returns the format identifier of this codec, such as RAW_FORMAT.