- All Superinterfaces:
- Destroyable,- Key,- Serializable
- All Known Subinterfaces:
- DHPrivateKey,- DSAPrivateKey,- ECPrivateKey,- EdECPrivateKey,- RSAMultiPrimePrivateCrtKey,- RSAPrivateCrtKey,- RSAPrivateKey,- XECPrivateKey
A private key.
 The purpose of this interface is to group (and provide type safety
 for) all private key interfaces.
 
 Note: The specialized private key interfaces extend this interface.
 See, for example, the DSAPrivateKey interface in
 java.security.interfaces.
 
 Implementations should override the default destroy and
 isDestroyed methods from the
 Destroyable interface to enable
 sensitive key information to be destroyed, cleared, or in the case
 where such information is immutable, unreferenced.
 Finally, since PrivateKey is Serializable, implementations
 should also override
 ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(java.lang.Object)
 to prevent keys that have been destroyed from being serialized.
- Since:
- 1.1
- See Also:
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Field SummaryFields
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Method SummaryMethods declared in interface javax.security.auth.Destroyabledestroy, isDestroyedMethods declared in interface java.security.KeygetAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat
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Field Details- 
serialVersionUIDDeprecated.AserialVersionUIDfield in an interface is ineffectual. Do not use; no replacement.The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.- See Also:
 
 
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serialVersionUIDfield in an interface is ineffectual.