01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
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06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17:
18: /**
19: * @author Vera Y. Petrashkova
20: * @version $Revision$
21: */package java.security;
22:
23: import java.io.Serializable;
24:
25: /**
26: * Defines the basic properties of all key objects.
27: *
28: * @see PublicKey
29: */
30: public interface Key extends Serializable {
31: /**
32: * @com.intel.drl.spec_ref
33: */
34: public static final long serialVersionUID = 6603384152749567654L;
35:
36: /**
37: * Answers the name of the algorithm that this key will work
38: * with. If the algorithm is unknown, it answers null.
39: *
40: * @return String the receiver's algorithm
41: */
42: public String getAlgorithm();
43:
44: /**
45: * Answers the name of the format used to encode the key, or null
46: * if it can not be encoded.
47: *
48: * @return String the receiver's encoding format
49: */
50: public String getFormat();
51:
52: /**
53: * Answers the encoded form of the receiver.
54: *
55: * @return byte[] the encoded form of the receiver
56: */
57: public byte[] getEncoded();
58: }
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