Interface PrivateKey
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- All Superinterfaces:
- Destroyable, Key, Serializable
- All Known Subinterfaces:
- DHPrivateKey, DSAPrivateKey, ECPrivateKey, RSAMultiPrimePrivateCrtKey, RSAPrivateCrtKey, RSAPrivateKey
public interface PrivateKey extends Key, Destroyable
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
DSAPrivateKeyinterface injava.security.interfaces.Implementations should override the default
destroyandisDestroyedmethods from theDestroyableinterface to enable sensitive key information to be destroyed, cleared, or in the case where such information is immutable, unreferenced. Finally, sincePrivateKeyisSerializable, implementations should also overrideObjectOutputStream.writeObject(java.lang.Object)to prevent keys that have been destroyed from being serialized.
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Field Summary
Fields Modifier and Type Field and Description static longserialVersionUIDThe class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.
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Method Summary
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Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key
getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat
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Methods inherited from interface javax.security.auth.Destroyable
destroy, isDestroyed
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Field Detail
serialVersionUID
static final long serialVersionUID
The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.- See Also:
- Constant Field Values
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