com.entrust.toolkit.archive

Class PemHeader

java.lang.Object

com.entrust.toolkit.archive.PemHeader

public class PemHeader
extends java.lang.Object

This class represents the header used during a PEM-protected message creation. It is responsible for writing the header to an arbitrary stream, and encrypting the symmetric key for the message recipients. There is no public constructor for this class, the only way to obtain an instance is via a call to the getHeader() method of the PemOutputStream class. The header can be written to an arbitrary OutputStream with the write method.

Since:

7.0

See Also:

PemOutputStream

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	write(java.io.OutputStream os) Writes the header to an OutputStream.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

write

public int write(java.io.OutputStream os)
          throws java.io.IOException,
                 ArchiveException

Writes the header to an OutputStream.

Parameters:

os - The stream to write the header to.

Returns:

The number of bytes written to the given stream.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - Thrown from any call to write to the given stream.

ArchiveException - Thrown for any problem creating the header that is not related to writing to the stream.