dsakeypairgenerator.java

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/* DSAKeyPairGenerator.java -- Initialize a DSA key generator
   Copyright (C) 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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package java.security.interfaces;

import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.InvalidParameterException;

/**
 * This interface contains methods for intializing a Digital Signature
 * Algorithm key generation engine.  The initialize methods may be called
 * any number of times.  If no explicity initialization call is made, then
 * the engine defaults to generating 1024-bit keys using pre-calculated
 * base, prime, and subprime values.
 *
 * @version 0.0
 *
 * @author Aaron M. Renn ([e-mail])
 */
public interface DSAKeyPairGenerator
{
  /**
   * Initializes the key generator with the specified DSA parameters and
   * random bit source
   *
   * @param params The DSA parameters to use
   * @param random The random bit source to use
   *
   * @exception InvalidParameterException If the parameters passed are not valid
   */
  public abstract void initialize(DSAParams params, SecureRandom random)
    throws InvalidParameterException;

  /**
   * Initializes the key generator to a give modulus.  If the <code>genParams</code>
   * value is <code>true</code> then new base, prime, and subprime values
   * will be generated for the given modulus.  If not, the pre-calculated
   * values will be used.  If no pre-calculated values exist for the specified
   * modulus, an exception will be thrown.  It is guaranteed that there will
   * always be pre-calculated values for all modulus values between 512 and
   * 1024 bits inclusives.
   *
   * @param modlen The modulus length
   * @param genParams <code>true</code> to generate new DSA parameters, <code>false</code> otherwise
   * @param random The random bit source to use
   *
   * @exception InvalidParameterException If a parameter is invalid
   */
  public abstract void initialize(int modlen, boolean genParams, 
				  SecureRandom random)
    throws InvalidParameterException;
}