Interface PrivateKey

All Superinterfaces:
AsymmetricKey,Destroyable,Key,Serializable
All Known Subinterfaces:
DHPrivateKey,DSAPrivateKey,ECPrivateKey,EdECPrivateKey,RSAMultiPrimePrivateCrtKey,RSAPrivateCrtKey,RSAPrivateKey,XECPrivateKey
public interfacePrivateKeyextendsAsymmetricKey,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, theDSAPrivateKey interface injava.security.interfaces.

Implementations should override the defaultdestroy andisDestroyed methods from theDestroyable interface to enable sensitive key information to be destroyed, cleared, or in the case where such information is immutable, unreferenced. Finally, sincePrivateKey isSerializable, implementations should also overrideObjectOutputStream.writeObject(java.lang.Object) to prevent keys that have been destroyed from being serialized.

Since:
1.1
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  • Field Details

    • serialVersionUID

      @Deprecatedstatic final long serialVersionUID
      Deprecated.
      AserialVersionUID field 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.
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