Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

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