org.apache.openejb.cipher

Interface PasswordCipher

All Known Subinterfaces:

PasswordCipher

All Known Implementing Classes:

PlainTextPasswordCipher, PlainTextPasswordCipher, StaticDESPasswordCipher, StaticDESPasswordCipher

public interface PasswordCipher

Implementations of PasswordCipher allow to encode and decode passwords used to connect to a database.

Several implementations may exist, as several encryption algorithms may be supported. One-way encryption algorithm (hash) can't be used as we need to give a plain password to the database. encrypt(String) method is not mandatory as we don't need to encode a password, but it's useful to get the encrypted value for a given plain text password. In the case you have implemented both methods, you can use the PasswordCodec command line tool to encode/decode a password.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	decrypt(char[] encryptedPassword) Decodes an encoded password and returns a plain text password.
char[]	encrypt(String plainPassword) Encodes a given plain text password and returns the encoded password.

Method Detail

encrypt

char[] encrypt(String plainPassword)

Encodes a given plain text password and returns the encoded password.

Parameters:

plainPassword - The password to encode. May not be null, nor empty.

Returns:

The encoded password.

decrypt

String decrypt(char[] encryptedPassword)

Decodes an encoded password and returns a plain text password.

Parameters:

encryptedPassword - The ciphered password to decode. May not be null, nor empty.

Returns:

The plain text password.