PKCS#8 and X.509 Key Encoding Classes

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∟PKCS#8/X.509 Private/Public Encoding Standards

∟PKCS#8 and X.509 Key Encoding Classes

This section describes 2 JDK classes: PKCS8EncodedKeySpec representing the PKCS#8 encoding standard and the X.509 encoding standard.

java.security.spec.PKCS8EncodedKeySpec - A sub class of the EncodedKeySpec class represents the ASN.1 encoding of a private key based on the PKCS#8 encoding standard. It has three methods:

PKCS8EncodedKeySpec() - Constructs a PKCS8EncodedKeySpec object from the specified byte array that contains the PKCS#8 encoded private key.
getEncoded() - Returns the encoded key in a byte array of this object.
getFormat() - Returns the name of encoding used in this object.

java.security.spec.X509EncodedKeySpec - A sub class of EncodedKeySpec represents the ASN.1 encoding of a private key based on the X.509 encoding standard. It has three methods:

X509EncodedKeySpec() - Constructs a X509EncodedKeySpec object from the specified byte array that contains the X509 encoded public key.
getEncoded() - Returns the encoded key in a byte array of this object.
getFormat() - Returns the name of encoding used in this object.

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