net.sf.mmm.crypto.symmetric.key

Interface SymmetricKeyCreator<K extends SecretKey>

Type Parameters:

K - type of SecretKey.

All Superinterfaces:

CryptoAlgorithm, KeyCreator

All Known Implementing Classes:

SymmetricKeyCreatorImpl

public interface SymmetricKeyCreator<K extends SecretKey>
extends KeyCreator

Extends KeyCreator for dealing with symmetric cryptographic keys.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

See Also:

createKey(String)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
default net.sf.mmm.binary.api.Binary	asBinary(K key)
byte[]	asData(K key)
K	createKey(byte[] key)
K	createKey(String password)
int	getKeyLength(K key)
default void	verifyKey(K key) Verify that the given key matches the criteria of this key creator such as key length.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.mmm.crypto.key.KeyCreator

getKeyLength

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.mmm.crypto.algorithm.CryptoAlgorithm

getAlgorithm

Method Detail

createKey

K createKey(String password)

Parameters:

password - the secret password.

Returns:

the according SecretKey.

createKey

K createKey(byte[] key)

Parameters:

key - the SecretKey as encoded data.

Returns:

the deserialized SecretKey.

asData

byte[] asData(K key)

Parameters:

key - the SecretKey.

Returns:

the SecretKey

asBinary

default net.sf.mmm.binary.api.Binary asBinary(K key)

Parameters:

key - the SecretKey to serialize.

Returns:

the Binary.

verifyKey

default void verifyKey(K key)

Verify that the given key matches the criteria of this key creator such as key length.

Parameters:

key - the SecretKey to verify.

getKeyLength

int getKeyLength(K key)

Parameters:

key - the SecretKey.

Returns:

the key length of the given key.