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## Package java.security.interfaces

Provides interfaces for generating RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman AsymmetricCipher algorithm) keys as defined in the RSA Laboratory Technical Note PKCS#1, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) keys as defined in NIST's FIPS-186.

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Interface Summary
DSAKey | The interface to a DSA public or private key.
DSAKeyPairGenerator | An interface to an object capable of generating DSA key pairs.
DSAParams | Interface to a DSA-specific set of key parameters, which defines a DSA key family.
DSAPrivateKey | The standard interface to a DSA private key.
DSAPublicKey | The interface to a DSA public key.
RSAKey | The interface to an RSA public or private key.
RSAMultiPrimePrivateCrtKey | The interface to an RSA multi-prime private key, as defined in the PKCS#1 v2.1, using the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) information values.
RSAPrivateCrtKey | The interface to an RSA private key, as defined in the PKCS#1 standard, using the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) information values.
RSAPrivateKey | The interface to an RSA private key.
RSAPublicKey | The interface to an RSA public key.

## Package java.security.interfaces Description

Provides interfaces for generating RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman AsymmetricCipher algorithm) keys as defined in the RSA Laboratory Technical Note PKCS#1, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) keys as defined in NIST's FIPS-186.

## Package Specification

- PKCS #1: RSA Encryption Standard, Version 1.5, November 1993
- Federal Information Processing Standards Publication (FIPS PUB) 186: Digital Signature Standard (DSS)

Since:
  JDK1.1

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