[iaik-ssl] decrypt() and getPrivateKeyInfo() actually return a PrivateKey ??

[Sundar Krishnan <sundark@india.hp.com>]

The documentation on class EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo says that the methods
:
decrypt() and getPrivateKeyInfo() return a PrivateKeyInfo.

However, I have observed that they actually return a PrivateKey, not a
PrivateKeyInfo.
You need an additional casting to PrivateKeyInfo if you need one. See eg
below.

PrivateKeyInfo prKeyInfo1 = (PrivateKeyInfo)epki.decrypt("This is the
passphrase!");

PrivateKeyInfo prKeyInfo2 = (PrivateKeyInfo)epki.getPrivateKeyInfo();

class iaik.pkcs.pkcs8.PrivateKeyInfo implements
    iaik.asn1.ASN1Type,
    java.security.PrivateKey,
    java.io.Serializable


If the intention is to actually return a PrivateKeyInfo object, I think
the code
needs to be corrected. Pl comment/correct if I am wrong.

Rgds

Sundar Krishnan




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