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.
Key, PrivateKey, Certificate, Signature.initVerify(java.security.PublicKey), DSAPublicKey, RSAPublicKey
static final long serialVersionUID
The class fingerprint that is set to indicate serialization compatibility with a previous version of the class.
getAlgorithm, getEncoded, getFormat
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