Package lumis.portal.crypto

Provides the API for cryptographic related operations.

This package offer a higher-level simpler API, focused to be easier to use than the Java Cryptography Architecture. As being simpler, this API also offer less features, because it hides lower-level implementation details.

A one-way and a reversible cipher is provided to be used. The algorithm used by each one is specified in the lumisportalconfig.xml configuration file. Note that changing the configuration may cause further encryption to be incompatible with previous ones.

The cipher can be obtained accessing the ICryptoManager, available using ManagerFactory.getCryptoManager().

A customized cipher class can be created implementing the ICipherSpi interface.

Since:

5.5.0

Version:

$Revision$ $Date$

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
ICipher	Defines the methods a cipher must implement.
ICipherSpi	Interface to be implemented by customized ciphers.
ICryptoManager	Manages cryptographic related operations.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AbstractCipher	An abstract ICipher implementation for easing concrete implementations.
CryptoManager	ICryptoManager implementation.
MessageDigestCipher	Uses a MessageDigest algorithm to encrypt data.
SymmetricCipher	Generic cipher implementation, based on symmetric ciphers available in the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA).

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
InvalidEncryptedValueException	Thrown to indicate that an invalid encrypted value was used.