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Statistical sampling library for use in virtdata libraries, based
on apache commons math 4
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package org.apache.logging.log4j.core.net.ssl;
/**
* PasswordProvider implementations are able to produce a password from somewhere. The source of the password data
* is implementation-specific.
* The {@link #getPassword()} method may be called multiple times as needed, so the
* caller does not need to (and should not) keep the password data in memory for longer than absolutely
* necessary. Users of this class should erase the password array by calling
* {@link java.util.Arrays#fill(char[], char)} immediately when authentication is complete and the password data
* is no longer needed.
*
*/
public interface PasswordProvider {
/**
* Returns a new char[] array with the password characters.
*
* It is the responsibility of the caller to erase this data by calling
* {@link java.util.Arrays#fill(char[], char)} immediately when authentication is complete and the password data
* is no longer needed.
*
* @return a copy of the password
*/
char[] getPassword();
}