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The PrivateKeyInfo.java Java example source code

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package com.sun.crypto.provider;

import java.math.*;
import java.io.*;
import sun.security.x509.AlgorithmId;
import sun.security.util.*;


/**
 * This class implements the <code>PrivateKeyInfo type,
 * which is defined in PKCS #8 as follows:
 *
 * <pre>
 * PrivateKeyInfo ::=  SEQUENCE {
 *     version   INTEGER,
 *     privateKeyAlgorithm   AlgorithmIdentifier,
 *     privateKey   OCTET STRING,
 *     attributes   [0] IMPLICIT Attributes OPTIONAL }
 * </pre>
 *
 * @author Jan Luehe
 */
final class PrivateKeyInfo {

    // the version number defined by the PKCS #8 standard
    private static final BigInteger VERSION = BigInteger.ZERO;

    // the private-key algorithm
    private AlgorithmId algid;

    // the private-key value
    private byte[] privkey;

    /**
     * Constructs a PKCS#8 PrivateKeyInfo from its ASN.1 encoding.
     */
    PrivateKeyInfo(byte[] encoded) throws IOException {
        DerValue val = new DerValue(encoded);

        if (val.tag != DerValue.tag_Sequence)
            throw new IOException("private key parse error: not a sequence");

        // version
        BigInteger parsedVersion = val.data.getBigInteger();
        if (!parsedVersion.equals(VERSION)) {
            throw new IOException("version mismatch: (supported: " +
                                  VERSION + ", parsed: " + parsedVersion);
        }

        // privateKeyAlgorithm
        this.algid = AlgorithmId.parse(val.data.getDerValue());

        // privateKey
        this.privkey = val.data.getOctetString();

        // OPTIONAL attributes not supported yet
    }

    /**
     * Returns the private-key algorithm.
     */
    AlgorithmId getAlgorithm() {
        return this.algid;
    }
}