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 * $Id: DerEncoder.java,v 1.2 2008/06/25 05:52:44 qcheng Exp $
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package com.iplanet.security.util;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * Interface to an object that knows how to write its own DER encoding to an
 * output stream.
 * 
 */
public interface DerEncoder {

    /**
     * DER encode this object and write the results to a stream.
     * 
     * @param out
     *            the stream on which the DER encoding is written.
     */
    public void derEncode(OutputStream out) throws IOException;

}
