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/* IKeyPairCodec.java --
   Copyright 2001, 2002, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
This file is a part of GNU Classpath.
 
GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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exception statement from your version.  */
 
 
package gnu.java.security.key;
 
import gnu.java.security.Registry;
 
import java.security.PrivateKey;
import java.security.PublicKey;
 
/**
 * The visible methods of an object that knows how to encode and decode
 * cryptographic asymmetric keypairs. Codecs are useful for (a) externalising
 * public and private keys for storage and on-the-wire transmission, as well as
 * (b) re-creating their internal Java representation from external sources.
 */
public interface IKeyPairCodec
{
  /** Constant identifying the <i>Raw</i> encoding format. */
  int RAW_FORMAT = Registry.RAW_ENCODING_ID;
 
  /** Constant identifying the <i>X.509</i> encoding format. */
  int X509_FORMAT = Registry.X509_ENCODING_ID;
 
  /** Constant identifying the <i>PKCS#8</i> encoding format. */
  int PKCS8_FORMAT = Registry.PKCS8_ENCODING_ID;
 
  /**
   * Constant identifying the <i>ASN.1</i> encoding format: a combined encoding
   * of <i>X.509</i> for public keys, and <i>PKCS#8</i> for private ones.
   */
  int ASN1_FORMAT = Registry.ASN1_ENCODING_ID;
 
  /**
   * Returns the unique identifier (within this library) of the format used to
   * externalise public and private keys.
   *
   * @return the identifier of the format, the object supports.
   */
  int getFormatID();
 
  /**
   * Encodes an instance of a public key for storage or transmission purposes.
   *
   * @param key the non-null key to encode.
   * @return a byte sequence representing the encoding of the designated key
   *         according to the format supported by this codec.
   * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the designated key is not supported
   *              by this codec.
   */
  byte[] encodePublicKey(PublicKey key);
 
  /**
   * Encodes an instance of a private key for storage or transmission purposes.
   *
   * @param key the non-null key to encode.
   * @return a byte sequence representing the encoding of the designated key
   *         according to the format supported by this codec.
   * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the designated key is not supported
   *              by this codec.
   */
  byte[] encodePrivateKey(PrivateKey key);
 
  /**
   * Decodes an instance of an external public key into its native Java
   * representation.
   *
   * @param input the source of the externalised key to decode.
   * @return a concrete instance of a public key, reconstructed from the
   *         designated input.
   * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the designated input does not
   *              contain a known representation of a public key for the format
   *              supported by the concrete codec.
   */
  PublicKey decodePublicKey(byte[] input);
 
  /**
   * Decodes an instance of an external private key into its native Java
   * representation.
   *
   * @param input the source of the externalised key to decode.
   * @return a concrete instance of a private key, reconstructed from the
   *         designated input.
   * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the designated input does not
   *              contain a known representation of a private key for the format
   *              supported by the concrete codec.
   */
  PrivateKey decodePrivateKey(byte[] input);
}
 

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