- All Superinterfaces:
Destroyable,Key,Serializable
- All Known Subinterfaces:
DHPrivateKey,DSAPrivateKey,ECPrivateKey,EdECPrivateKey,RSAMultiPrimePrivateCrtKey,RSAPrivateCrtKey,RSAPrivateKey,XECPrivateKey
A private key.
The purpose of this interface is to group (and provide type safety
for) all private key interfaces.
Note: The specialized private key interfaces extend this interface.
See, for example, the DSAPrivateKey interface in
java.security.interfaces.
Implementations should override the default destroy and
isDestroyed methods from the
Destroyable interface to enable
sensitive key information to be destroyed, cleared, or in the case
where such information is immutable, unreferenced.
Finally, since PrivateKey is Serializable, implementations
should also override
ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(java.lang.Object)
to prevent keys that have been destroyed from being serialized.
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Field Summary
Fields -
Method Summary
Methods declared in interface javax.security.auth.Destroyable
destroy, isDestroyedMethods declared in interface java.security.Key
getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat
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Field Details
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serialVersionUID
Deprecated.AserialVersionUIDfield in an interface is ineffectual. Do not use; no replacement.The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.- See Also:
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serialVersionUIDfield in an interface is ineffectual.