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-/* ISignature.java --
- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-This file is a part of GNU Classpath.
-
-GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
-your option) any later version.
-
-GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
-General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with GNU Classpath; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
-USA
-
-Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
-making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and
-conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
-combination.
-
-As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
-permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
-executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
-modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
-terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
-independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
-module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from
-or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend
-this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
-obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
-exception statement from your version. */
-
-
-package gnu.java.security.sig;
-
-import java.util.Map;
-
-/**
- * The visible methods of every signature-with-appendix scheme.
- * <p>
- * The Handbook of Applied Cryptography (HAC), by A. Menezes &amp; al. states:
- * "Digital signature schemes which require the message as input to the
- * verification algorithm are called <i>digital signature schemes with appendix</i>.
- * ... They rely on cryptographic hash functions rather than customised
- * redundancy functions, and are less prone to existential forgery attacks."
- * <p>
- * References:
- * <ol>
- * <li><a href="http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/">Handbook of Applied
- * Cryptography</a>, Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A.
- * Vanstone. Section 11.2.2 Digital signature schemes with appendix.</li>
- * </ol>
- */
-public interface ISignature
- extends Cloneable
-{
- /** Property name of the verifier's public key. */
- public static final String VERIFIER_KEY = "gnu.crypto.sig.public.key";
-
- /** Property name of the signer's private key. */
- public static final String SIGNER_KEY = "gnu.crypto.sig.private.key";
-
- /**
- * Property name of an optional {@link java.security.SecureRandom},
- * {@link java.util.Random}, or {@link gnu.java.security.prng.IRandom}
- * instance to use. The default is to use a classloader singleton from
- * {@link gnu.java.security.util.PRNG}.
- */
- public static final String SOURCE_OF_RANDOMNESS = "gnu.crypto.sig.prng";
-
- /**
- * Returns the canonical name of this signature scheme.
- *
- * @return the canonical name of this instance.
- */
- String name();
-
- /**
- * Initialises this instance for signature verification.
- *
- * @param attributes the attributes to use for setting up this instance.
- * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the designated public key is not
- * appropriate for this signature scheme.
- * @see #SOURCE_OF_RANDOMNESS
- * @see #VERIFIER_KEY
- */
- void setupVerify(Map attributes) throws IllegalArgumentException;
-
- /**
- * Initialises this instance for signature generation.
- *
- * @param attributes the attributes to use for setting up this instance.
- * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the designated private key is not
- * appropriate for this signature scheme.
- * @see #SOURCE_OF_RANDOMNESS
- * @see #SIGNER_KEY
- */
- void setupSign(Map attributes) throws IllegalArgumentException;
-
- /**
- * Digests one byte of a message for signing or verification purposes.
- *
- * @param b the message byte to digest.
- * @throws IllegalStateException if this instance was not setup for signature
- * generation/verification.
- */
- void update(byte b) throws IllegalStateException;
-
- /**
- * Digests a sequence of bytes from a message for signing or verification
- * purposes.
- *
- * @param buffer the byte sequence to consider.
- * @param offset the byte poisition in <code>buffer</code> of the first byte
- * to consider.
- * @param length the number of bytes in <code>buffer</code> starting from
- * the byte at index <code>offset</code> to digest.
- * @throws IllegalStateException if this instance was not setup for signature
- * generation/verification.
- */
- void update(byte[] buffer, int offset, int length)
- throws IllegalStateException;
-
- /**
- * Terminates a signature generation phase by digesting and processing the
- * context of the underlying message digest algorithm instance.
- *
- * @return a {@link Object} representing the native output of the signature
- * scheme implementation.
- * @throws IllegalStateException if this instance was not setup for signature
- * generation.
- */
- Object sign() throws IllegalStateException;
-
- /**
- * Terminates a signature verification phase by digesting and processing the
- * context of the underlying message digest algorithm instance.
- *
- * @param signature a native signature object previously generated by an
- * invocation of the <code>sign()</code> method.
- * @return <code>true</code> iff the outpout of the verification phase
- * confirms that the designated signature object has been generated
- * using the corresponding public key of the recepient.
- * @throws IllegalStateException if this instance was not setup for signature
- * verification.
- */
- boolean verify(Object signature) throws IllegalStateException;
-
- /**
- * Returns a clone copy of this instance.
- *
- * @return a clone copy of this instance.
- */
- Object clone();
-}