public interface PasswordCipher
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.| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
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java.lang.String |
decrypt(char[] encryptedPassword)
Decodes an encoded password and returns a plain text password.
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char[] |
encrypt(java.lang.String plainPassword)
Encodes a given plain text password and returns the encoded password.
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char[] encrypt(java.lang.String plainPassword)
plainPassword - The password to encode. May not be null, nor empty.java.lang.String decrypt(char[] encryptedPassword)
encryptedPassword - The ciphered password to decode. May not be null,
nor empty.