Package org.bouncycastle.jcajce

Interface ZeroizableSecretKey

All Superinterfaces:

Destroyable, Key, SecretKey, Serializable

public interface ZeroizableSecretKey
extends SecretKey

Interface for SecretKey's that can be explictly zeroized.

As this makes the key mutable, at the moment it only applies to MAC keys associated with key agreement schemes.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface javax.crypto.SecretKey

serialVersionUID

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	zeroize()	Proactively zero out the key bytes.

Methods inherited from interface javax.security.auth.Destroyable

destroy, isDestroyed

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key

getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat

Method Details

zeroize

void zeroize()

Proactively zero out the key bytes.