Package java.security.interfaces

Provides interfaces for generating RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman AsymmetricCipher algorithm) keys as defined in the RSA Laboratory Technical Note PKCS#1, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) keys as defined in NIST's FIPS-186.

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Interface Summary

DSAKey	The interface to a DSA public or private key.
DSAKeyPairGenerator	An interface to an object capable of generating DSA key pairs.
DSAParams	Interface to a DSA-specific set of key parameters, which defines a DSA key family.
DSAPrivateKey	The standard interface to a DSA private key.
DSAPublicKey	The interface to a DSA public key.
RSAKey	The interface to an RSA public or private key.
RSAMultiPrimePrivateCrtKey	The interface to an RSA multi-prime private key, as defined in the PKCS#1 v2.1, using the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) information values.
RSAPrivateCrtKey	The interface to an RSA private key, as defined in the PKCS#1 standard, using the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) information values.
RSAPrivateKey	The interface to an RSA private key.
RSAPublicKey	The interface to an RSA public key.

Package java.security.interfaces Description

Provides interfaces for generating RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman AsymmetricCipher algorithm) keys as defined in the RSA Laboratory Technical Note PKCS#1, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) keys as defined in NIST's FIPS-186.

Package Specification

• PKCS #1: RSA Encryption Standard, Version 1.5, November 1993
• Federal Information Processing Standards Publication (FIPS PUB) 186: Digital Signature Standard (DSS)

Since:

JDK1.1