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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 1.4.

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package org.bouncycastle.util;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Interface implemented by objects that can be converted into byte arrays.
 */
public interface Encodable
{
    /**
     * Return a byte array representing the implementing object.
     *
     * @return a byte array representing the encoding.
     * @throws java.io.IOException if an issue arises generation the encoding.
     */
    byte[] getEncoded()
        throws IOException;
}