com.entrust.toolkit.security.provider

Class SecurePrivateKey

java.lang.Object

com.entrust.toolkit.security.provider.SecurePrivateKey

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.entrust.toolkit.security.provider.EntrustPrivateKey, java.io.Serializable, java.security.Key, java.security.PrivateKey

public abstract class SecurePrivateKey
extends java.lang.Object
implements com.entrust.toolkit.security.provider.EntrustPrivateKey

A secure private key; keys of this type prevent access to the unsecured (aka: plaintext) private key material.

Note: Although this class implements the Serializable interface (by extending java.security.Key interface), this class is in fact NOT serializable. Any attempt to serialize will result in a java.io.IOException.

Since:

8.0

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SecurePrivateKey()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
byte[]	getEncoded() Returns null since this private key implementation does not support encoding.
java.lang.String	getFormat() Returns null since this private key implementation does not support encoding.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface com.entrust.toolkit.security.provider.EntrustPrivateKey

delete

Methods inherited from interface com.entrust.toolkit.security.provider.PrivateKey

destroyCriticalData, getType

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key

getAlgorithm

Constructor Detail

SecurePrivateKey

public SecurePrivateKey()

Method Detail

getEncoded

public final byte[] getEncoded()

Returns null since this private key implementation does not support encoding.

Specified by:

getEncoded in interface java.security.Key

Returns:

null (encoding is not supported)

getFormat

public final java.lang.String getFormat()

Returns null since this private key implementation does not support encoding.

Specified by:

getFormat in interface java.security.Key

Returns:

null (encoding is not supported)