org.jasypt.encryption.pbe.config
Interface PBECleanablePasswordConfig

All Known Implementing Classes:

EnvironmentPBEConfig, EnvironmentStringPBEConfig, SimplePBEConfig, SimpleStringPBEConfig, WebPBEConfig, WebStringPBEConfig

public interface PBECleanablePasswordConfig

Common interface for all PBEConfig implementations that store passwords as char[] instead of String and also allow this passwords to be set as char[] instead of Strings.

Since:

1.8

Author:

Daniel Fernández

Method Summary

void	cleanPassword() Clean the password stored in this configuration object.
char[]	getPasswordCharArray() Return the password set, as a char array.

Method Detail

getPasswordCharArray

char[] getPasswordCharArray()

Return the password set, as a char array.

Important: the returned array MUST BE A COPY of the one stored in the configuration object. The caller of this method is therefore be responsible for cleaning this resulting char[].

Since:

1.8

cleanPassword

void cleanPassword()

Clean the password stored in this configuration object.

A common implementation of this cleaning operation consists of iterating the array of chars and setting each of its positions to (char)0.

Since:

1.8