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package eu.gemss.components.security.token.types.key;

import eu.gemss.components.security.token.SecurityToken;
import eu.gemss.components.security.token.SecurityTokenException;


/**
 * KeyToken describes a key token
 */
public interface KeyToken extends SecurityToken {

	/**
	 * Retrieve the encoding format for this key
	 * @return format
	 */
	public String getEncodingFormat() throws SecurityTokenException;

	/**
	 * Retrieve the encoded form of the key
	 * @return encoded key
	 */
	public byte[] getEncoded() throws SecurityTokenException;

}