KeyRef

All Superinterfaces:

java.security.Key, java.io.Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

PrivateKeyRef, PublicKeyRef, SecretKeyRef

All Known Implementing Classes:

SmartCardHSMECKey, SmartCardHSMKey, SmartCardHSMPrivateKey, SmartCardHSMRSAKey, SmartCardHSMSecretKey
```
public interface KeyRef
extends java.security.Key
```
Interface for classes that reference a key stored on a smart card. Different cards use different ways of identifying a key on the card, for example file names, indexes, numbers, logical names. Wherever a card service interface needs to identify a generic key on card, the interface should use type KeyRef or one of it's derived types.
Concrete card service implementations should then support a subset of the derived classes of KeyRef, for example PrivateKeyFile for cards that store their keys in ISO files.

Author:

Peter Bendel (peter_bendel@de.ibm.com), Roland Weber (rolweber@de.ibm.com)

See Also:

PrivateKeyRef, PublicKeyRef, SecretKeyRef, PrivateKeyFile

- Field Summary
  - Fields inherited from interface java.security.Key
    serialVersionUID
- Method Summary
  - Methods inherited from interface java.security.Key
    getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat