edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io
Class PublicKeyCredentialReader

java.lang.Object
  edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io.AbstractEncodedCredentialReader<PublicKey>
      edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io.PublicKeyCredentialReader

All Implemented Interfaces:

CredentialReader<PublicKey>

public class PublicKeyCredentialReader
extends AbstractEncodedCredentialReader<PublicKey>

Reads encoded public keys in X.509 public key format. Both PEM and DER encodings are supported.

Version:

$Revision: 1818 $

Author:

Middleware Services

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io.AbstractEncodedCredentialReader

DSA_ID, logger, RSA_ID

Constructor Summary

PublicKeyCredentialReader()

Method Summary

protected PublicKey

decode(byte[] encoded) Decodes an encoded representation of a credential into a corresponding object.

Methods inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io.AbstractEncodedCredentialReader

read, read

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PublicKeyCredentialReader

public PublicKeyCredentialReader()

Method Detail

decode

protected PublicKey decode(byte[] encoded)
                    throws CryptException

Decodes an encoded representation of a credential into a corresponding object.

Specified by:

decode in class AbstractEncodedCredentialReader<PublicKey>

Parameters:

encoded - Encoded representation of credential.

Returns:

Decoded credential.

Throws:

CryptException - On decoding errors.