All Superinterfaces:

Key, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

DHPublicKey, DSAPublicKey, ECPublicKey, RSAPublicKey, XECPublicKey

public interface PublicKey
extends Key

A public key. This interface contains no methods or constants. It merely serves to group (and provide type safety for) all public key interfaces. Note: The specialized public key interfaces extend this interface. See, for example, the DSAPublicKey interface in java.security.interfaces.

Since:

1.1

See Also:

Key, PrivateKey, Certificate, Signature.initVerify(java.security.PublicKey), DSAPublicKey, RSAPublicKey

• Field Summary

  Fields 

  Modifier and Type	Field	Description
  static long	serialVersionUID	Deprecated.

• Method Summary

• Field Details

  • serialVersionUID

    @Deprecated static final long serialVersionUID

    The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.

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    Constant Field Values