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package gnu.javax.crypto.prng;

/**
 * Trivial interface to group Password-based encryption property names and
 * constants.
 */
public interface IPBE
{
  /**
   * Property name for the iteration count in a PBE algorithm. The property
   * associated with this is expected to be an {@link Integer}.
   */
  String ITERATION_COUNT = "gnu.crypto.pbe.iteration.count";

  /**
   * Property name for the password in a PBE algorithm. The property associated
   * with this is expected to be a char array.
   */
  String PASSWORD = "gnu.crypto.pbe.password";

  /**
   * Property name for the password character encoding in a PBE algorithm. The
   * property associated with this is expected to be a String denoting a valid
   * character-encoding name. If this property is not set, and a password is
   * used, then {@link #DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCODING} will be used when converting
   * the password character(s) to bytes.
   */
  String PASSWORD_ENCODING = "gnu.crypto.pbe.password.encoding";

  /**
   * Property name for the salt in a PBE algorithm. The property associated
   * with this is expected to be a byte array.
   */
  String SALT = "gnu.crypto.pbe.salt";

  /**
   * The default character set encoding name to be used if (a) a password is
   * to be used as the source for a PBE-based Key Derivation Function (KDF) and
   * (b) no character set encoding name was specified among the attributes used
   * to initialize the instance.
   */
  String DEFAULT_PASSWORD_ENCODING = "UTF-8";
}