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package sun.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.
 *
 * @author D. N. Hoover
 */
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;

}