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javax.crypto

Interface SecretKey

All Superinterfaces:
Key, Serializable
Known Subinterfaces:
PBEKey
Known Implementing Classes:
KerberosKey, SecretKeySpec
public interface SecretKey
extends Key
A secret key for symmetric cryptography.

This interface defines no new methods over Key, but rather is intended to be a marker interface and to provide type safety for secret keys.

The format of secret keys should be RAW, as returned by Key.getFormat().

Concrete implementations of this interface should override the Object.equals(Object) and Object.hashCode() methods of Object to use the actual key data rather than the identity-based default methods.

See Also:
SecretKeyFactory, Cipher

Field Summary

static long
serialVersionUID
The version identifier used for serialization.

Fields inherited from interface java.security.Key

serialVersionUID

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key

getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat

Field Details

serialVersionUID

public static final long serialVersionUID
The version identifier used for serialization.
Field Value:
-4795878709595146952L
SecretKey.java -- A key for symmetric cryptography. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.

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