iaik.security.pq.hqc

Class HQCPrivateKeySpec

java.lang.Object

iaik.security.pq.hqc.HQCPrivateKeySpec

All Implemented Interfaces:

KeySpec

public class HQCPrivateKeySpec
extends Object
implements KeySpec

This class is the Private Key Spec for HQC [0].

[0] Carlos Aguilar Melchor, Nicolas Aragon, Slim Bettaieb, Loïc Bidoux, Olivier Blazy, Jurjen Bos, Jean-Christophe Deneuville, Arnaud Dion, Philippe Gaborit, Jérôme Lacan, Edoardo Persichetti, Jean-Marc Robert, Pascal Véron and Gilles Zémor HQC (30.04.2023) – Submission to round 4 of the NIST post-quantum project.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
HQCPrivateKeySpec(byte[] rawKey, HQCParameterSpec parameterSpec) Create the private key spec from the raw byte sequence of the private key.

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

HQCPrivateKeySpec

public HQCPrivateKeySpec(byte[] rawKey,
                         HQCParameterSpec parameterSpec)
                  throws InvalidKeyException

Create the private key spec from the raw byte sequence of the private key.

Parameters:

rawKey - private key as a raw byte sequence

parameterSpec - the given specification of the parameters

Throws:

InvalidKeyException - it will throw an error if the raw key has not the length according to the parameterSpec's