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The Bouncy Castle Java API for handling the OpenPGP protocol. This jar contains the OpenPGP API for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8. The APIs can be used in conjunction with a JCE/JCA provider such as the one provided with the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs.
package org.bouncycastle.bcpg;
import org.bouncycastle.util.Encodable;
/**
* base interface for a PGP key
*/
public interface BCPGKey
extends Encodable
{
/**
* 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 encoded in PGP format.
*
* @return "RAW" or "PGP"
*/
public String getFormat();
/**
* return a string of bytes giving the encoded format of the key, as described by it's format.
*
* @return byte[]
*/
public byte[] getEncoded();
}
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