Package com.illumon.util.tools

Class PublicPrivateKeyEncryption

java.lang.Object

com.illumon.util.tools.PublicPrivateKeyEncryption

public class PublicPrivateKeyEncryption
extends Object

Immutable class to provide simple public/private-key encryption/decryption based on a provided keypair, or encryption based on a provided PublicKey. Results are provided as a base-64-encoded String. Note that PublicKey instances are serializable and can be provided to a client for encryption.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static enum	PublicPrivateKeyEncryption.Source

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PublicPrivateKeyEncryption(String keyfile)	Initialize the key pair based on the provided key filename
PublicPrivateKeyEncryption(String keyfile, PublicPrivateKeyEncryption.Source source)	Initialize the key pair based on the provided key filename
PublicPrivateKeyEncryption(PublicKey publicKey)	Initialize the public key based on the provided PublicKey, and ensure decryption will fail

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	decrypt(String encryptedString)	Decrypt the supplied base-64 encoded, encrypted String
String	encrypt(String stringToEncrypt)	Encrypt and re-encode as base-64 the supplied String
PublicKey	getPublicKey()	Return the public key that can be used for encryption

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

PublicPrivateKeyEncryption

public PublicPrivateKeyEncryption(String keyfile)

Initialize the key pair based on the provided key filename

Parameters:

keyfile - the filename (including path) for the public/private keypair

PublicPrivateKeyEncryption

public PublicPrivateKeyEncryption(String keyfile,
 PublicPrivateKeyEncryption.Source source)

Initialize the key pair based on the provided key filename

Parameters:

keyfile - the filename (including path) for the public/private keypair

PublicPrivateKeyEncryption

public PublicPrivateKeyEncryption(PublicKey publicKey)

Initialize the public key based on the provided PublicKey, and ensure decryption will fail

Parameters:

publicKey - the public key to be used for the encryption

Method Details

getPublicKey

public PublicKey getPublicKey()

Return the public key that can be used for encryption

Returns:

the PublicKey

encrypt

public String encrypt(String stringToEncrypt)

Encrypt and re-encode as base-64 the supplied String

Parameters:

stringToEncrypt - the String to encrypt

Returns:

a base-64 encoded, encrypted String

decrypt

public String decrypt(String encryptedString)

Decrypt the supplied base-64 encoded, encrypted String

Parameters:

encryptedString - the base-64 encoded, encrypted String

Returns:

the decrypted String