Package java.security

Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Key	The Key interface is the top-level interface for all keys.
PublicKey	A public key.

Class Summary

Class	Description
KeyFactory	Key factories are used to convert key specifications (transparent representations of the underlying key material) into keys (opaque cryptographic keys of type Key).
MessageDigest	This MessageDigest class provides applications the functionality of a message digest algorithm, such as MD5 or SHA.
Signature	This Signature class is used to provide applications the functionality of a digital signature algorithm.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
DigestException	This is the generic Message Digest exception.
GeneralSecurityException	The GeneralSecurityException class is a generic security exception class that provides type safety for all the security-related exception classes that extend from it.
InvalidAlgorithmParameterException	This is the exception for invalid or inappropriate algorithm parameters.
InvalidKeyException	This is the exception for invalid Keys (invalid encoding, wrong length, uninitialized, etc).
KeyException	This is the basic key exception.
NoSuchAlgorithmException	This exception is thrown when a particular cryptographic algorithm is requested but is not available in the environment.
SignatureException	This is the generic Signature exception.

Package java.security Description

Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework. This package supports the generation and storage of cryptographic public key pairs, as well as a number of exportable cryptographic operations including those for message digest and signature generation.

SATSA Subset Description

This package is a subset of the java.security package in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.4.2.

Since:

SATSA1.0