public ASN1OctetString(byte[] string) 
{
        this.string = string;
}

Parameters:

string - the octets making up the octet string.

 public ASN1OctetString(DEREncodable obj) 
{
        try
        {
            ByteArrayOutputStream   bOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            DEROutputStream         dOut = new DEROutputStream(bOut);
            dOut.writeObject(obj);
            dOut.close();
            this.string = bOut.toByteArray();
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Error processing object : " + e.getMessage(), e);
        }
}

 abstract  void encode(DEROutputStream out) throws IOException

 public boolean equals(Object o) 
{
        if (o == null || !(o instanceof DEROctetString))
        {
            return false;
        }
        DEROctetString  other = (DEROctetString)o;
        byte[] b1 = other.getOctets();
        byte[] b2 = this.getOctets();
        if (b1.length != b2.length)
        {
            return false;
        }
        for (int i = 0; i != b1.length; i++)
        {
            if (b1[i] != b2[i])
            {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
}

 public static ASN1OctetString getInstance(Object obj) 
{
        if (obj == null || obj instanceof ASN1OctetString)
        {
            return (ASN1OctetString)obj;
        }
        if (obj instanceof ASN1TaggedObject)
        {
            return getInstance(((ASN1TaggedObject)obj).getObject());
        }
        if (obj instanceof ASN1Sequence)
        {
            Vector      v = new Vector();
            Enumeration e = ((ASN1Sequence)obj).getObjects();
            while (e.hasMoreElements())
            {
                v.addElement(e.nextElement());
            }
            return new BERConstructedOctetString(v);
        }
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("illegal object in getInstance: " + obj.getClass().getName());
}

return an Octet String from the given object.

 public static ASN1OctetString getInstance(ASN1TaggedObject obj,
    boolean explicit) 
{
        return getInstance(obj.getObject());
}

return an Octet String from a tagged object.

 public byte[] getOctets() 
{
        return string;
}

 public int hashCode() 
{
        byte[]  b = this.getOctets();
        int     value = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i != b.length; i++)
        {
            value ^= (b[i] & 0xff) < <  (i % 4);
        }
        return value;
}