Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

This abstract class represents a public or private key in an encoded format. It serves as the superclass for encoding-specific classes.

public abstract class EncodedKeySpec implements KeySpec { // Public Constructors public EncodedKeySpec (byte[ ] encodedKey ); // Public Instance Methods public byte[ ] getEncoded ( ); public abstract String getFormat ( ); }

Subclasses

PKCS8EncodedKeySpec , X509EncodedKeySpec