org.wso2.carbon.crypto.api

Interface InternalCryptoProvider

public interface InternalCryptoProvider

The service contract for internal crypto providers. An internal crypto provider is used for crypto needs related to internal operations. One example is encrypting sensitive tokens before persisting inside a data store. A symmetric key based implementation which reads the secret from a file, is a sample implementation of this contract.

As per the design decisions, the contract should never be amended in a way that the secret keys are returned to the caller.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
byte[]	decrypt(byte[] ciphertext, String algorithm, String javaSecurityAPIProvider) Computes and returns the cleartext of the given ciphertext.
byte[]	encrypt(byte[] cleartext, String algorithm, String javaSecurityAPIProvider) Computes and returns the ciphertext of the given cleartext.

Method Detail

encrypt

byte[] encrypt(byte[] cleartext,
               String algorithm,
               String javaSecurityAPIProvider)
        throws CryptoException

Computes and returns the ciphertext of the given cleartext.

Parameters:

cleartext - The cleartext to be encrypted.

algorithm - The encryption / decryption algorithm

javaSecurityAPIProvider -

Returns:

The ciphertext

Throws:

CryptoException - If something unexpected happens during the encryption operation.

decrypt

byte[] decrypt(byte[] ciphertext,
               String algorithm,
               String javaSecurityAPIProvider)
        throws CryptoException

Computes and returns the cleartext of the given ciphertext.

Parameters:

ciphertext - The ciphertext to be decrypted.

algorithm - The encryption / decryption algorithm

javaSecurityAPIProvider -

Returns:

The cleartext

Throws:

CryptoException - If something unexpected happens during the decryption operation.