anon.crypto
Interface IMyPrivateKey

All Superinterfaces:

IXMLEncodable, java.security.Key, java.security.PrivateKey, java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractPrivateKey, MyDSAPrivateKey, MyECPrivateKey, MyRSAPrivateKey

public interface IMyPrivateKey
extends java.security.PrivateKey, IXMLEncodable

An interface for a private key for encryption and signing. All private keys should implement a constructor of the following type: public IMyPublicKey(PrivateKeyInfo a_keyInfo) throws java.security.InvalidKeyException; It is the only possibility to create them automatically at run time. The big advantage for the code is that it does not need to "know" that a private key class exists. It can be instantiated nevertheless! If you implement your own private key outside the AN.ON library, you must call anon.util.ClassUtil.loadClasses() to read your classes into the class cache. Otherwise, the private key may not be found.

See Also:

anon.crypto.AsymmetricKeyPair, ClassUtil.loadClasses()

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface java.security.PrivateKey

serialVersionUID

Fields inherited from interface anon.util.IXMLEncodable

FIELD_XML_ELEMENT_CONTAINER_NAME, FIELD_XML_ELEMENT_NAME, XML_ATTR_ID, XML_ATTR_LANGUAGE, XML_ATTR_VERSION

Method Summary

IMyPublicKey	createPublicKey() Creates the corresponding public key to this private key.
org.bouncycastle.asn1.pkcs.PrivateKeyInfo	getAsPrivateKeyInfo() Gets the private key as a PrivateKeyInfo object.
ISignatureCreationAlgorithm	getSignatureAlgorithm() Gets the signature algorithm object that is held and initialised with this key.

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key

getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat

Methods inherited from interface anon.util.IXMLEncodable

toXmlElement

Method Detail

createPublicKey

IMyPublicKey createPublicKey()

Creates the corresponding public key to this private key.

Returns:

the corresponding public key to this private key

getSignatureAlgorithm

ISignatureCreationAlgorithm getSignatureAlgorithm()

Gets the signature algorithm object that is held and initialised with this key. It is ready to sign messages and does not need to be reinitialised by the caller. Therefore, this method must make sure that the algorithm is initialised with this key.

Returns:

the signature algorithm object that is held and initialised by this key

getAsPrivateKeyInfo

org.bouncycastle.asn1.pkcs.PrivateKeyInfo getAsPrivateKeyInfo()

Gets the private key as a PrivateKeyInfo object.

Returns:

the private key as a PrivateKeyInfo object