| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 1997, 2007, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
| * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. |
| * |
| * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
| * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as |
| * published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this |
| * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided |
| * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. |
| * |
| * This code 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 |
| * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that |
| * accompanied this code). |
| * |
| * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version |
| * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, |
| * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. |
| * |
| * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA |
| * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any |
| * questions. |
| */ |
| |
| package javax.crypto; |
| |
| /** |
| * A secret (symmetric) key. |
| * |
| * <p>This interface contains no methods or constants. |
| * Its only purpose is to group (and provide type safety for) secret keys. |
| * |
| * <p>Provider implementations of this interface must overwrite the |
| * <code>equals</code> and <code>hashCode</code> methods inherited from |
| * <code>java.lang.Object</code>, so that secret keys are compared based on |
| * their underlying key material and not based on reference. |
| * |
| * <p>Keys that implement this interface return the string <code>RAW</code> |
| * as their encoding format (see <code>getFormat</code>), and return the |
| * raw key bytes as the result of a <code>getEncoded</code> method call. (The |
| * <code>getFormat</code> and <code>getEncoded</code> methods are inherited |
| * from the <code>java.security.Key</code> parent interface.) |
| * |
| * @author Jan Luehe |
| * |
| * @see SecretKeyFactory |
| * @see Cipher |
| * @since 1.4 |
| */ |
| |
| public interface SecretKey extends java.security.Key { |
| /** |
| * The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization |
| * compatibility since J2SE 1.4. |
| */ |
| static final long serialVersionUID = -4795878709595146952L; |
| } |