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The Bouncy Castle Crypto package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5 to JDK 1.8. Note: this package includes the NTRU encryption algorithms.

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package org.bouncycastle.util;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * A generic interface describing a simple store of objects.
 *
 * @param  the object type stored.
 */
public interface Store
{
    /**
     * Return a possibly empty collection of objects that match the criteria implemented
     * in the passed in Selector.
     *
     * @param selector the selector defining the match criteria.
     * @return a collection of matching objects, empty if none available.
     * @throws StoreException if there is a failure during matching.
     */
    Collection getMatches(Selector selector)
        throws StoreException;
}