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* ORACLE PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
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package java.security;
/**
* A private key.
* The purpose of this interface is to group (and provide type safety
* for) all private key interfaces.
* <p>
* Note: The specialized private key interfaces extend this interface.
* See, for example, the {@code DSAPrivateKey} interface in
* {@link java.security.interfaces}.
* <p>
* Implementations should override the default {@code destroy} and
* {@code isDestroyed} methods from the
* {@link javax.security.auth.Destroyable} interface to enable
* sensitive key information to be destroyed, cleared, or in the case
* where such information is immutable, unreferenced.
* Finally, since {@code PrivateKey} is {@code Serializable}, implementations
* should also override
* {@link java.io.ObjectOutputStream#writeObject(java.lang.Object)}
* to prevent keys that have been destroyed from being serialized.
*
* @see Key
* @see PublicKey
* @see Certificate
* @see Signature#initVerify
* @see java.security.interfaces.DSAPrivateKey
* @see java.security.interfaces.RSAPrivateKey
* @see java.security.interfaces.RSAPrivateCrtKey
*
* @author Benjamin Renaud
* @author Josh Bloch
*/
public interface PrivateKey extends Key, javax.security.auth.Destroyable {
// Declare serialVersionUID to be compatible with JDK1.1
/**
* The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization
* compatibility with a previous version of the class.
*/
static final long serialVersionUID = 6034044314589513430L;
}