ostore.security
Interface QSSignature

All Superinterfaces:

QuickSerializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

QSSha1RsaSignature, ThresholdSignature

public interface QSSignature

extends QuickSerializable

A class used to map a particular digital signature algorithm and provider to a type code, for more efficient encoding.

Version:

$Id: QSSignature.java,v 1.8 2002/07/20 19:18:15 srhea Exp $

Author:

Sean C. Rhea

See Also:

SignedQS

Method Summary

String	algorithm() The signing algorithm.
String	provider() The signing algorithm's provider, as used with getInstance.

Methods inherited from interface ostore.util.QuickSerializable

serialize

Method Detail

algorithm

public String algorithm()

The signing algorithm. Using this and the value of provider(), a user of this class should be able to produce a signature engine to pass to SignedQS.verify(java.security.PublicKey, java.security.Signature) by calling Signature.getInstance(String, String).

Returns:

the name of the digital signature algorithm, for instance, "SHA-1/RSA/PKCS#1"

provider

public String provider()

The signing algorithm's provider, as used with getInstance. Using this and the value of algorithm(), a user of this class should be able to produce a signature engine to pass to SignedQS.verify(java.security.PublicKey, java.security.Signature) by calling Signature.getInstance(String, String).

Returns:

the name of the digital signature algorithm provider, for instance, "CryptixCrypto"