Java tutorial
package org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Encodable; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1EncodableVector; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1ObjectIdentifier; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Primitive; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Sequence; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1TaggedObject; import org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERSequence; public class AlgorithmIdentifier extends ASN1Object { private ASN1ObjectIdentifier algorithm; private ASN1Encodable parameters; public static AlgorithmIdentifier getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj, boolean explicit) { return getInstance(ASN1Sequence.getInstance(obj, explicit)); } public static AlgorithmIdentifier getInstance(Object obj) { if (obj instanceof AlgorithmIdentifier) { return (AlgorithmIdentifier) obj; } else if (obj != null) { return new AlgorithmIdentifier(ASN1Sequence.getInstance(obj)); } return null; } public AlgorithmIdentifier(ASN1ObjectIdentifier algorithm) { this.algorithm = algorithm; } public AlgorithmIdentifier(ASN1ObjectIdentifier algorithm, ASN1Encodable parameters) { this.algorithm = algorithm; this.parameters = parameters; } private AlgorithmIdentifier(ASN1Sequence seq) { if (seq.size() < 1 || seq.size() > 2) { throw new IllegalArgumentException("Bad sequence size: " + seq.size()); } algorithm = ASN1ObjectIdentifier.getInstance(seq.getObjectAt(0)); if (seq.size() == 2) { parameters = seq.getObjectAt(1); } else { parameters = null; } } public ASN1ObjectIdentifier getAlgorithm() { return algorithm; } public ASN1Encodable getParameters() { return parameters; } /** * Produce an object suitable for an ASN1OutputStream. * <pre> * AlgorithmIdentifier ::= SEQUENCE { * algorithm OBJECT IDENTIFIER, * parameters ANY DEFINED BY algorithm OPTIONAL } * </pre> */ public ASN1Primitive toASN1Primitive() { ASN1EncodableVector v = new ASN1EncodableVector(2); v.add(algorithm); if (parameters != null) { v.add(parameters); } return new DERSequence(v); } }