"RSA" is used multiple times. Why is it not defined as a project-level constant?

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Issue type
Refactor
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Tech stack
java
Domain
cryptography

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Search the Java source for the repeated "RSA" and "X.509" strings and inspect how the encoding specification uses them. Define project-level public constants for the repeated values and verify that all relevant usages reference those constants.

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Description

type: feature request

The strings "RSA" and "X.509" is used more than once in this project.
From the encoding specification perspective, these strings can be extracted as public constants.

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