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- All Superinterfaces:
- Destroyable,- Key,- Serializable
 - All Known Subinterfaces:
- DHPrivateKey,- DSAPrivateKey,- ECPrivateKey,- RSAMultiPrimePrivateCrtKey,- RSAPrivateCrtKey,- RSAPrivateKey,- XECPrivateKey
 
 public interface PrivateKey extends Key, Destroyable A private key. The purpose of this interface is to group (and provide type safety for) all private key interfaces.Note: The specialized private key interfaces extend this interface. See, for example, the DSAPrivateKeyinterface injava.security.interfaces.Implementations should override the default destroyandisDestroyedmethods from theDestroyableinterface to enable sensitive key information to be destroyed, cleared, or in the case where such information is immutable, unreferenced. Finally, sincePrivateKeyisSerializable, implementations should also overrideObjectOutputStream.writeObject(java.lang.Object)to prevent keys that have been destroyed from being serialized.- Since:
- 1.1
- See Also:
- Key,- PublicKey,- Certificate,- Signature.initVerify(java.security.PublicKey),- DSAPrivateKey,- RSAPrivateKey,- RSAPrivateCrtKey
 
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Field SummaryFields Modifier and Type Field Description static longserialVersionUIDThe class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.
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Method Summary- 
Methods declared in interface javax.security.auth.Destroyabledestroy, isDestroyed
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Methods declared in interface java.security.KeygetAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat
 
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Field Detail- 
serialVersionUIDstatic final long serialVersionUID The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.- See Also:
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