http://www.bouncycastle.org/java.html: The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8.
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package org.bouncycastle.jcajce.provider.symmetric.util;

import java.security.AlgorithmParametersSpi;
import java.security.spec.AlgorithmParameterSpec;
import java.security.spec.InvalidParameterSpecException;

public abstract class BaseAlgorithmParameters
    extends AlgorithmParametersSpi
{
    protected boolean isASN1FormatString(String format)
    {
        return format == null || format.equals("ASN.1");
    }

    protected AlgorithmParameterSpec engineGetParameterSpec(
        Class paramSpec)
        throws InvalidParameterSpecException
    {
        if (paramSpec == null)
        {
            throw new NullPointerException("argument to getParameterSpec must not be null");
        }

        return localEngineGetParameterSpec(paramSpec);
    }

    protected abstract AlgorithmParameterSpec localEngineGetParameterSpec(Class paramSpec)
        throws InvalidParameterSpecException;
}