javax.crypto

Interface SecretKey

All Superinterfaces:

Key, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

PBEKey

All Known Implementing Classes:

KerberosKey, SecretKeySpec

public interface SecretKey
extends Key

A secret key for symmetric cryptography.

This interface defines no new methods over Key, but rather is intended to be a marker interface and to provide type safety for secret keys.

The format of secret keys should be RAW, as returned by Key.getFormat().

Concrete implementations of this interface should override the Object.equals(java.lang.Object) and Object.hashCode() methods of Object to use the actual key data rather than the identity-based default methods.

See Also:

SecretKeyFactory, Cipher

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static long	serialVersionUID

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key

getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

static final long serialVersionUID

See Also:

Constant Field Values