From 9d3ea066969d31c3b5d8400a1ddcb0bfa54ba4c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gary Gregory <garydgregory@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 10:38:51 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Deprecate AES.AES()

---
 src/changes/changes.xml                                |  1 +
 src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/utils/AES.java | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 5f20b8955..3826bdb39 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
       <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="Martin Wiesner">Fixes grammar and typos in Javadoc #233.</action>
       <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate OpenSslJna.OpenSslJna().</action>      
       <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate Crypto.Crypto().</action>      
+      <action dev="ggregory"     type="fix" due-to="Gary Gregory">Deprecate AES.AES().</action>      
       <!-- UPDATE -->
       <action                    type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Dependabot, Gary Gregory">Bump commons-parent from 56 to 64 #225.</action>
       <action                    type="update" dev="ggregory" due-to="Gary Gregory">Bump com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl from 2.3.7 to 2.3.8.</action>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/utils/AES.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/utils/AES.java
index 684b58063..93e08211d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/utils/AES.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/crypto/utils/AES.java
@@ -54,4 +54,14 @@ public static SecretKeySpec newSecretKeySpec(final byte[] key) {
         return new SecretKeySpec(key, ALGORITHM);
     }
 
+    
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new instance.
+     *
+     * @deprecated Will be private in the next major release.
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public AES() {
+        // empty
+    }
 }