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package javax.crypto;
/**
* A secret (symmetric) key.
* The purpose of this interface is to group (and provide type safety
* for) all secret key interfaces.
*
* Provider implementations of this interface must overwrite the
* {@code equals} and {@code hashCode} methods inherited from
* {@link java.lang.Object}, so that secret keys are compared based on
* their underlying key material and not based on reference.
* 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 SecretKey} 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.
*
*
Keys that implement this interface return the string {@code RAW}
* as their encoding format (see {@code getFormat}), and return the
* raw key bytes as the result of a {@code getEncoded} method call. (The
* {@code getFormat} and {@code getEncoded} methods are inherited
* from the {@link java.security.Key} parent interface.)
*
* @author Jan Luehe
*
* @see SecretKeyFactory
* @see Cipher
* @since 1.4
*/
public interface SecretKey extends
java.security.Key, javax.security.auth.Destroyable {
/**
* The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization
* compatibility since J2SE 1.4.
*/
static final long serialVersionUID = -4795878709595146952L;
}