Cipher
Class Cipher
- java.lang.Object
-
- javax.crypto.Cipher
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- NullCipher
public class Cipher extends Object
This class provides the functionality of a cryptographic cipher for encryption and decryption. It forms the core of the Java Cryptographic Extension (JCE) framework.
In order to create a Cipher object, the application calls the Cipher's getInstance method, and passes the name of the requested transformation to it. Optionally, the name of a provider may be specified.
A transformation is a string that describes the operation (or set of operations) to be performed on the given input, to produce some output. A transformation alw
