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Interface java.security.PublicKey

All Known Subinterfaces:

DSAPublicKey, RSAPublicKey

public abstract interface PublicKey

extends Key

A public key. This interface contains no methods or constants. It merely serves to group (and provide type safety for) all public key interfaces. Note: The specialized public key interfaces extend this interface. See, for example, the DSAPublicKey interface in java.security.interfaces.

See Also:

Key, PrivateKey, Certificate, Signature.initVerify(java.security.PublicKey), DSAPublicKey, RSAPublicKey

Field Summary

static long

serialVersionUID

Fields inherited from class java.security.Key

serialVersionUID

Fields inherited from class java.io.Serializable

serialVersionUID

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key

getAlgorithm , getEncoded , getFormat

Field Detail

serialVersionUID

public static final long serialVersionUID