SecretKey

Class Overview

A cryptographic secret (symmetric) key.

This interface is a marker interface to group secret keys and to provide type safety for.

Implementations of this interface have to overwrite the equals and hashCode from Object so comparison is done using the actual key data and not the object reference.

Summary

[Expand] Inherited Constants
From interface java.security.Key long serialVersionUID The serialVersionUID to be compatible with JDK1.1.

[Expand] Inherited Methods
From interface java.security.Key abstract String getAlgorithm() Returns the name of the algorithm of this key. abstract byte[] getEncoded() Returns the encoded form of this key, or null if encoding is not supported by this key. abstract String getFormat() Returns the name of the format used to encode this key, or null if it can not be encoded.