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

Figure 14-93. java.security.spec.EncodedKeySpec

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