org.bouncycastle.bcpg
Interface BCPGKey

All Superinterfaces:

org.bouncycastle.util.Encodable

All Known Implementing Classes:

DSAPublicBCPGKey, DSASecretBCPGKey, ECPublicBCPGKey, ECSecretBCPGKey, EdSecretBCPGKey, ElGamalSecretBCPGKey, OctetArrayBCPGKey, RSAPublicBCPGKey, RSASecretBCPGKey, ElGamalPublicBCPGKey

public interface BCPGKey

extends org.bouncycastle.util.Encodable

base interface for a PGP key

Method Summary

byte[]	getEncoded() return a string of bytes giving the encoded format of the key, as described by it's format.
java.lang.String	getFormat() Return the base format for this key - in the case of the symmetric keys it will generally be raw indicating that the key is just a straight byte representation, for an asymmetric key the format will be PGP, indicating the key is a string of MPIs or octets encoded in PGP format.

Method Detail

getFormat

public java.lang.String getFormat()

Return the base format for this key - in the case of the symmetric keys it will generally be raw indicating that the key is just a straight byte representation, for an asymmetric key the format will be PGP, indicating the key is a string of MPIs or octets encoded in PGP format.

Returns:

"RAW" or "PGP"

getEncoded

public byte[] getEncoded()

return a string of bytes giving the encoded format of the key, as described by it's format.

Specified by:

getEncoded in interface org.bouncycastle.util.Encodable

Returns:

byte[]