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The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.7. Note: this package includes the IDEA and NTRU encryption algorithms.

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package org.bouncycastle.asn1;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Base class for ASN.1 primitive objects. These are the actual objects used to generate byte encodings.
 */
public abstract class ASN1Primitive
    extends ASN1Object
{
    ASN1Primitive()
    {

    }

    /**
     * Create a base ASN.1 object from a byte stream.
     *
     * @param data the byte stream to parse.
     * @return the base ASN.1 object represented by the byte stream.
     * @exception IOException if there is a problem parsing the data, or parsing the stream did not exhaust the available data.
     */
    public static ASN1Primitive fromByteArray(byte[] data)
        throws IOException
    {
        ASN1InputStream aIn = new ASN1InputStream(data);

        try
        {
            ASN1Primitive o = aIn.readObject();

            if (aIn.available() != 0)
            {
                throw new IOException("Extra data detected in stream");
            }

            return o;
        }
        catch (ClassCastException e)
        {
            throw new IOException("cannot recognise object in stream");
        }
    }

    public final boolean equals(Object o)
    {
        if (this == o)
        {
            return true;
        }

        return (o instanceof ASN1Encodable) && asn1Equals(((ASN1Encodable)o).toASN1Primitive());
    }

    public ASN1Primitive toASN1Primitive()
    {
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Return the current object as one which encodes using Distinguished Encoding Rules.
     *
     * @return a DER version of this.
     */
    ASN1Primitive toDERObject()
    {
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Return the current object as one which encodes using Definite Length encoding.
     *
     * @return a DL version of this.
     */
    ASN1Primitive toDLObject()
    {
        return this;
    }

    public abstract int hashCode();

    /**
     * Return true if this objected is a CONSTRUCTED one, false otherwise.
     * @return true if CONSTRUCTED bit set on object's tag, false otherwise.
     */
    abstract boolean isConstructed();

    /**
     * Return the length of the encoding this object will produce.
     * @return the length of the object's encoding.
     * @throws IOException if the encoding length cannot be calculated.
     */
    abstract int encodedLength() throws IOException;

    abstract void encode(ASN1OutputStream out) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Equality (similarity) comparison for two ASN1Primitive objects.
     */
    abstract boolean asn1Equals(ASN1Primitive o);
}