java.security
Interface  PublicKey
- All Superinterfaces: 
 - Key, Serializable
 
- All Known Subinterfaces: 
 - DSAPublicKey, RSAPublicKey
 
- public interface PublicKey
- extends Key
  
A public key. This interface contains no methods or constants.
 It merely serves to group (and provide type safety for) all public key
 interfaces.
 Note: The specialized public key interfaces extend this interface.
 See, for example, the DSAPublicKey interface in
 java.security.interfaces.
- See Also: 
 Key, 
PrivateKey, 
Certificate, 
Signature.initVerify(java.security.PublicKey), 
DSAPublicKey, 
RSAPublicKey
 
 
serialVersionUID
public static final long serialVersionUID
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