Package java.security.spec

Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications.

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Description

Interface Summary

AlgorithmParameterSpec	A (transparent) specification of cryptographic parameters.
KeySpec	A (transparent) specification of the key material that constitutes a cryptographic key.

Class Summary

EncodedKeySpec	This class represents a public key in encoded format.
X509EncodedKeySpec	This class represents the ASN.1 encoding of a public key, encoded according to the ASN.1 type SubjectPublicKeyInfo.

Exception Summary

InvalidKeySpecException

This is the exception for invalid key specifications.

Package java.security.spec Description

Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications.

A key specification is a transparent representation of the key material that constitutes a key. A key may be specified in an algorithm-specific way, or in an algorithm-independent encoding format (such as ASN.1).

Package Specification

• PKCS #1: RSA Encryption Standard, Version 1.5, November 1993
• Federal Information Processing Standards Publication (FIPS PUB) 186: Digital Signature Standard (DSS)

Related Documentation

For documentation that includes information about algorithm parameter and key specifications, please see:

• Java Cryptography Architecture API Specification and Reference

SATSA Subset Description

This package is a subset of the java.security.spec package in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.4.2.

Since:

SATSA1.0