SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java

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private static boolean keysEqual(Key key1, Key key2) {
  if (key1.equals(key2)) {
    return true;
  }
  return false;
}

Compliant Solution

This compliant solution uses the equals() method as a first test and then compares the encoded version of the keys to facilitate provider-independent behavior. It checks whether an RSAPrivateKey and an RSAPrivateCrtKey represent equivalent private keys [Sun 2006].

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