| java.security.acl | The classes and interfaces in this package have been superseded by classes in the java.security package. |
| java.security.cert | Provides classes and interfaces for parsing and managing certificates, certificate revocation lists (CRLs), and certification paths. |
| java.security.interfaces | Provides interfaces for generating RSA (Rivest, Shamir and Adleman AsymmetricCipher algorithm) keys as defined in the RSA Laboratory Technical Note PKCS#1, and DSA (Digital Signature Algorithm) keys as defined in NIST's FIPS-186. |
| java.security.spec | Provides classes and interfaces for key specifications and algorithm parameter specifications. |
| AlgorithmConstraints | This interface specifies constraints for cryptographic algorithms, keys (key sizes), and other algorithm parameters. | code | html |
| Certificate | This is an interface of abstract methods for managing a variety of identity certificates. |
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| DomainCombiner | A DomainCombiner provides a means to dynamically
update the ProtectionDomains associated with the current
AccessControlContext. |
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| Guard | This interface represents a guard, which is an object that is used to protect access to another object. |
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| Key | The Key interface is the top-level interface for all keys. | code | html |
| KeyStore.Entry | A marker interface for KeyStore entry types. |
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| KeyStore.LoadStoreParameter | A marker interface for KeyStore
load
and
store
parameters. |
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| KeyStore.ProtectionParameter | A marker interface for keystore protection parameters. | code | html |
| Policy.Parameters | This represents a marker interface for Policy parameters. | code | html |
| Principal | This interface represents the abstract notion of a principal, which can be used to represent any entity, such as an individual, a corporation, and a login id. | code | html |
| PrivateKey | A private key. |
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| PrivilegedAction | A computation to be performed with privileges enabled. | code | html |
| PrivilegedExceptionAction | A computation to be performed with privileges enabled, that throws one or more checked exceptions. | code | html |
| PublicKey | A public key. |
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| AlgorithmParameterGeneratorSpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the AlgorithmParameterGenerator class, which
is used to generate a set of parameters to be used with a certain algorithm. |
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| AlgorithmParametersSpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the AlgorithmParameters class, which is used to manage
algorithm parameters. |
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| AuthProvider | This class defines login and logout methods for a provider. | code | html |
| BasicPermission | The BasicPermission class extends the Permission class, and can be used as the base class for permissions that want to follow the same naming convention as BasicPermission. | code | html |
| Identity | This class represents identities: real-world objects such as people, companies or organizations whose identities can be authenticated using their public keys. |
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| IdentityScope | This class represents a scope for identities. |
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| KeyFactorySpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the KeyFactory class. |
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| KeyPairGenerator | The KeyPairGenerator class is used to generate pairs of public and private keys. | code | html |
| KeyPairGeneratorSpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the |
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| KeyStore.Builder | A description of a to-be-instantiated KeyStore object. | code | html |
| KeyStoreSpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the KeyStore class. |
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| MessageDigest | This MessageDigest class provides applications the functionality of a message digest algorithm, such as SHA-1 or SHA-256. | code | html |
| MessageDigestSpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the MessageDigest class, which provides the functionality
of a message digest algorithm, such as MD5 or SHA. |
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| Permission | Abstract class for representing access to a system resource. | code | html |
| PermissionCollection | Abstract class representing a collection of Permission objects. | code | html |
| Policy | A Policy object is responsible for determining whether code executing in the Java runtime environment has permission to perform a security-sensitive operation. | code | html |
| PolicySpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the Policy class. |
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| Provider | This class represents a "provider" for the Java Security API, where a provider implements some or all parts of Java Security. | code | html |
| SecureRandomSpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the SecureRandom class. |
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| Signature | The Signature class is used to provide applications the functionality of a digital signature algorithm. | code | html |
| SignatureSpi | This class defines the Service Provider Interface (SPI)
for the Signature class, which is used to provide the
functionality of a digital signature algorithm. |
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| Signer | This class is used to represent an Identity that can also digitally sign data. | code | html |
| CryptoPrimitive | An enumeration of cryptographic primitives. | code | html |
| KeyRep.Type | Key type. | code | html |
| AccessControlContext | An AccessControlContext is used to make system resource access decisions based on the context it encapsulates. | code | html |
| AccessControlException | This exception is thrown by the AccessController to indicate that a requested access (to a critical system resource such as the file system or the network) is denied. |
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| AccessController | The AccessController class is used for access control operations and decisions. |
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| AlgorithmParameterGenerator | The AlgorithmParameterGenerator class is used to generate a
set of
parameters to be used with a certain algorithm. |
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| AlgorithmParameters | This class is used as an opaque representation of cryptographic parameters. | code | html |
| AllPermission | The AllPermission is a permission that implies all other permissions. | code | html |
| AllPermissionCollection | Specific {@code PermissionCollection} for storing {@code AllPermission}s. | code | html |
| AllPermissionCollection | A AllPermissionCollection stores a collection of AllPermission permissions. | code | html |
| AllPermissionCollection.SingletonEnumeration | An auxiliary implementation for enumerating a single object. | code | html |
| BasicPermissionCollection | A BasicPermissionCollection stores a collection of BasicPermission permissions. | code | html |
| BasicPermissionCollection | Specific {@code PermissionCollection} for storing {@code BasicPermissions} of arbitrary type. | code | html |
| CodeSigner | This class encapsulates information about a code signer. | code | html |
| CodeSource | This class extends the concept of a codebase to encapsulate not only the location (URL) but also the certificate chains that were used to verify signed code originating from that location. |
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| DigestException | This is the generic Message Digest exception. | code | html |
| DigestInputStream | A transparent stream that updates the associated message digest using the bits going through the stream. | code | html |
| DigestOutputStream | A transparent stream that updates the associated message digest using the bits going through the stream. | code | html |
| DummyKeyPairGenerator | code | html | |
| DummyMessageDigest | code | html | |
| DummySignature | code | html | |
| GeneralSecurityException | The GeneralSecurityException class is a generic
security exception class that provides type safety for all the
security-related exception classes that extend from it. |
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| GuardedObject | A GuardedObject is an object that is used to protect access to another object. | code | html |
| IntersectingDomainCombiner | A trivial implementation of DomainCombiner that produces the intersection of the supplied ProtectionDomain objects. | code | html |
| InvalidAlgorithmParameterException | This is the exception for invalid or inappropriate algorithm parameters. | code | html |
| InvalidKeyException | This is the exception for invalid Keys (invalid encoding, wrong length, uninitialized, etc). | code | html |
| InvalidParameterException | This exception, designed for use by the JCA/JCE engine classes, is thrown when an invalid parameter is passed to a method. | code | html |
| KeyException | This is the basic key exception. | code | html |
| KeyFactory | Key factories are used to convert keys (opaque
cryptographic keys of type Key) into key specifications
(transparent representations of the underlying key material), and vice
versa. |
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| KeyManagementException | This is the general key management exception for all operations dealing with key management. | code | html |
| KeyPair | This class is a simple holder for a key pair (a public key and a private key). | code | html |
| KeyPairGenerator.Delegate | code | html | |
| KeyRep | Standardized representation for serialized Key objects. | code | html |
| KeyStore | This class represents a storage facility for cryptographic keys and certificates. | code | html |
| KeyStore.Builder.FileBuilder | code | html | |
| KeyStore.CallbackHandlerProtection | A ProtectionParameter encapsulating a CallbackHandler. | code | html |
| KeyStore.PasswordProtection | A password-based implementation of ProtectionParameter. |
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| KeyStore.PrivateKeyEntry | A KeyStore entry that holds a PrivateKey
and corresponding certificate chain. |
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| KeyStore.SecretKeyEntry | A KeyStore entry that holds a SecretKey. |
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| KeyStore.SimpleLoadStoreParameter | code | html | |
| KeyStore.TrustedCertificateEntry | A KeyStore entry that holds a trusted
Certificate. |
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| KeyStoreException | This is the generic KeyStore exception. | code | html |
| MessageDigest.Delegate | code | html | |
| NoSuchAlgorithmException | This exception is thrown when a particular cryptographic algorithm is requested but is not available in the environment. | code | html |
| NoSuchProviderException | This exception is thrown when a particular security provider is requested but is not available in the environment. | code | html |
| Permissions | This class represents a heterogeneous collection of Permissions. | code | html |
| PermissionsEnumerator | code | html | |
| PermissionsHash | A PermissionsHash stores a homogeneous set of permissions in a hashtable. | code | html |
| PermissionsHash | A default {@code PermissionCollection} implementation that uses a hashtable. | code | html |
| Policy.PolicyDelegate | This subclass is returned by the getInstance calls. | code | html |
| Policy.UnsupportedEmptyCollection | This class represents a read-only empty PermissionCollection object that
is returned from the getPermissions(CodeSource) and
getPermissions(ProtectionDomain)
methods in the Policy class when those operations are not
supported by the Policy implementation. |
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| PrivilegedActionException | This exception is thrown by
doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction) and
doPrivileged(PrivilegedExceptionAction,
AccessControlContext context) to indicate
that the action being performed threw a checked exception. |
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| ProtectionDomain | This ProtectionDomain class encapsulates the characteristics of a domain, which encloses a set of classes whose instances are granted a set of permissions when being executed on behalf of a given set of Principals. |
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| ProtectionDomain.Key | Used for storing ProtectionDomains as keys in a Map. | code | html |
| Provider.EngineDescription | code | html | |
| Provider.Service | The description of a security service. | code | html |
| Provider.ServiceKey | code | html | |
| Provider.UString | code | html | |
| ProviderException | A runtime exception for Provider exceptions (such as misconfiguration errors or unrecoverable internal errors), which may be subclassed by Providers to throw specialized, provider-specific runtime errors. | code | html |
| SecureClassLoader | This class extends ClassLoader with additional support for defining classes with an associated code source and permissions which are retrieved by the system policy by default. | code | html |
| SecureRandom | This class provides a cryptographically strong random number generator (RNG). | code | html |
| Security | This class centralizes all security properties and common security methods. |
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| Security.ProviderProperty | code | html | |
| SecurityPermission | This class is for security permissions. | code | html |
| Signature.CipherAdapter | code | html | |
| Signature.Delegate | code | html | |
| SignatureException | This is the generic Signature exception. | code | html |
| SignedObject | SignedObject is a class for the purpose of creating authentic runtime objects whose integrity cannot be compromised without being detected. |
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| Timestamp | This class encapsulates information about a signed timestamp. | code | html |
| URIParameter | A parameter that contains a URI pointing to data intended for a PolicySpi or ConfigurationSpi implementation. | code | html |
| UnrecoverableEntryException | This exception is thrown if an entry in the keystore cannot be recovered. | code | html |
| UnrecoverableKeyException | This exception is thrown if a key in the keystore cannot be recovered. | code | html |
| UnresolvedPermission | The UnresolvedPermission class is used to hold Permissions that were "unresolved" when the Policy was initialized. | code | html |
| UnresolvedPermissionCollection | A UnresolvedPermissionCollection stores a collection of UnresolvedPermission permissions. | code | html |
| VMAccessController | code | html | |
| VMSecureRandom | VM-specific methods for generating real (or almost real) random seeds. | code | html |
| VMSecureRandom.Spinner | code | html |