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package java.security;

/**
 * This class defines the <i>Service Provider Interface</i> (<b>SPI</b>)
 * for the {@code SecureRandom} class.
 * All the abstract methods in this class must be implemented by each
 * service provider who wishes to supply the implementation
 * of a cryptographically strong pseudo-random number generator.
 *
 *
 * @see SecureRandom
 * @since 1.2
 */

public abstract class SecureRandomSpi implements java.io.Serializable {

 private static final long serialVersionUID = -2991854161009191830L;

 /**
 * Reseeds this random object. The given seed supplements, rather than
 * replaces, the existing seed. Thus, repeated calls are guaranteed
 * never to reduce randomness.
 *
 * @param seed the seed.
 */
 protected abstract void engineSetSeed(byte[] seed);

 /**
 * Generates a user-specified number of random bytes.
 *
 * <p> If a call to {@code engineSetSeed} had not occurred previously,
 * the first call to this method forces this SecureRandom implementation
 * to seed itself. This self-seeding will not occur if
 * {@code engineSetSeed} was previously called.
 *
 * @param bytes the array to be filled in with random bytes.
 */
 protected abstract void engineNextBytes(byte[] bytes);

 /**
 * Returns the given number of seed bytes. This call may be used to
 * seed other random number generators.
 *
 * @param numBytes the number of seed bytes to generate.
 *
 * @return the seed bytes.
 */
 protected abstract byte[] engineGenerateSeed(int numBytes);
}