org.bouncycastle.jcajce
Class PBKDF2Key

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.bouncycastle.jcajce.PBKDF2Key

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.security.Key, PBKDFKey, javax.crypto.SecretKey, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

PBKDF2KeyWithParameters

public class PBKDF2Key

extends java.lang.Object

implements PBKDFKey

A password based key for use with PBKDF2 as defined in PKCS#5.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Fields inherited from interface java.security.Key

serialVersionUID

Constructor Summary

PBKDF2Key(char[] password, CharToByteConverter converter)
Basic constructor for a password based key using PBKDF - secret key generation parameters will be passed separately..

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getAlgorithm() Return the password based key derivation function this key is for,
byte[]	getEncoded() Return the password converted to bytes.
java.lang.String	getFormat() Return the format encoding.
char[]	getPassword() Return a reference to the char[] array holding the password.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

PBKDF2Key

public PBKDF2Key(char[] password,
                 CharToByteConverter converter)

Basic constructor for a password based key using PBKDF - secret key generation parameters will be passed separately..

Parameters:

password - password to use.

Method Detail

getPassword

public char[] getPassword()

Return a reference to the char[] array holding the password.

Returns:

a reference to the password array.

getAlgorithm

public java.lang.String getAlgorithm()

Return the password based key derivation function this key is for,

Specified by:

getAlgorithm in interface java.security.Key

Returns:

the string "PBKDF2"

getFormat

public java.lang.String getFormat()

Return the format encoding.

Specified by:

getFormat in interface java.security.Key

Returns:

the type name representing a char[] to byte[] conversion.

getEncoded

public byte[] getEncoded()

Return the password converted to bytes.

Specified by:

getEncoded in interface java.security.Key

Returns:

the password converted to a byte array.