javax.crypto
Interface SecretKey
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- SecretKeySpec, PBEKey, IDEAKey, DESKey, RC4Key, TwofishKey, DESedeKey, BlowfishKey
- public abstract interface SecretKey
- extends java.security.Key
A secret (symmetric) key. This interface contains no methods or constants.
Its only purpose is to group (and provide type safety for) secret keys.
Provider implementations of this interface must overwrite the equals and
hashCode methods inherited from java.lang.Object, so that secret keys
are compared based on their underlying key material and not based on
reference.
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 java.security.Key parent interface.)
- See Also:
Key
,
PublicKey
,
PrivateKey
,
SecretKeyFactory
,
Cipher
Field Summary |
static java.lang.String |
ident
|
Fields inherited from class java.security.Key |
serialVersionUID |
Fields inherited from class java.io.Serializable |
serialVersionUID |
Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key |
getAlgorithm,
getEncoded,
getFormat |
ident
public static final java.lang.String ident