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/*
* @(#)DSAKeyPairGenerator.java 1.6 98/07/01
*
* Copyright 1995-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
* 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This software is the confidential and proprietary information
* of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You
* shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
* it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
* you entered into with Sun.
*/
package java.security.interfaces;
import java.security.*;
/**
* An interface to an object capable of generating DSA key pairs.
*
* <p>The <code>initialize</code> methods may each be called any number
* of times. If no <code>initialize</code> method is called on a
* DSAKeyPairGenerator, the default is to generate 1024-bit keys, using
* precomputed p, q and g parameters and an instance of SecureRandom as
* the random bit source.
*
* <p>Users wishing to indicate DSA-specific parameters, and to generate a key
* pair suitable for use with the DSA algorithm typically
*
* <ol>
*
* <li>Get a key pair generator for the DSA algorithm by calling the
* KeyPairGenerator <code>getInstance</code> method with "DSA"
* as its argument.<p>
*
* <li>Initialize the generator by casting the result to a DSAKeyPairGenerator
* and calling one of the
* <code>initialize</code> methods from this DSAKeyPairGenerator interface.<p>
*
* <li>Generate a key pair by calling the <code>generateKeyPair</code>
* method from the KeyPairGenerator class.
*
* </ol>
*
* <p>Note: it is not always necessary to do do algorithm-specific
* initialization for a DSA key pair generator. That is, it is not always
* necessary to call an <code>initialize</code> method in this interface.
* Algorithm-independent initialization using the <code>initialize</code> method
* in the KeyPairGenerator
* interface is all that is needed when you accept defaults for algorithm-specific
* parameters.
*
* @see java.security.KeyPairGenerator
*/
public interface DSAKeyPairGenerator {
/**
* Initializes the key pair generator using p, q and g, the DSA
* family parameters.
*
* @param params the parameters to use to generate the keys.
*
* @param random the random bit source to use to generate
* key bits.
*
* @exception InvalidParameterException if the parameters passed are
* invalid or null.
*/
public void initialize(DSAParams params, SecureRandom random)
throws InvalidParameterException;
/**
* Initializes the key pair generator for a given modulus length,
* without parameters.
*
* <p>If <code>genParams</code> is true, this method will generate new
* p, q and g parameters. If it is false, the method will use precomputed
* parameters for the modulus length requested. If there are no
* precomputed parameters for that modulus length, an exception will be
* thrown. It is guaranteed that there will always be
* default parameters for modulus lengths of 512 and 1024 bits.
*
* @param modlen the modulus length, in bits. Valid values are any
* multiple of 8 between 512 and 1024, inclusive.
*
* @param random the random bit source to use to generate
* key bits.
*
* @param genParams whether or not to generate new parameters for
* the modulus length requested.
*
* @exception InvalidParameterException if the modulus length is not
* between 512 and 1024, or if genParams is false and there are
* not precomputed parameters for the modulus length requested.
*/
public void initialize(int modlen, boolean genParams, SecureRandom random)
throws InvalidParameterException;
}