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
.
extends
Key, PrivateKey, Certificate, Signature.initVerify, java.security.interfaces.DSAPublicKey, java.security.interfaces.RSAPublicKey