Interface SecretKey
- All Superinterfaces:
Destroyable,Key,Serializable
- All Known Subinterfaces:
PBEKey
- All Known Implementing Classes:
EncryptionKey,KerberosKey,SecretKeySpec
Provider implementations of this interface must overwrite the
equals and hashCode methods inherited from
Object, so that secret keys are compared based on
their underlying key material and not based on reference.
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 SecretKey is Serializable, implementations
should also override
ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(java.lang.Object)
to prevent keys that have been destroyed from being serialized.
Keys that implement this interface return the string RAW
as their encoding format (see getFormat), and return the
raw key bytes as the result of a getEncoded method call. (The
getFormat and getEncoded methods are inherited
from the Key parent interface.)
- Since:
- 1.4
- See Also:
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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 since J2SE 1.4.- See Also:
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serialVersionUIDfield in an interface is ineffectual.