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/**
 * Provides the classes and interfaces for the security framework.
 * This includes classes that implement an easily configurable,
 * fine-grained access control security architecture.
 * This package also supports
 * the generation and storage of cryptographic public key pairs,
 * as well as a number of exportable cryptographic operations
 * including those for message digest and signature generation. Finally,
 * this package provides classes that support signed/guarded objects
 * and secure random number generation.
 *
 * Many of the classes provided in this package (the cryptographic
 * and secure random number generator classes in particular) are
 * provider-based. The class itself defines a programming interface
 * to which applications may write. The implementations themselves may
 * then be written by independent third-party vendors and plugged
 * in seamlessly as needed. Therefore application developers may
 * take advantage of any number of provider-based implementations
 * without having to add or rewrite code.
 *
 * <h2>Package Specification</h2>
 *
 * <ul>
 * <li><a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/security/crypto/CryptoSpec.html">
 * <b>Java&trade;
 * Cryptography Architecture (JCA) Reference Guide</b></a></li>
 *
 * <li>PKCS #8: Private-Key Information Syntax Standard, Version 1.2,
 * November 1993</li>
 *
 * <li><a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/security/StandardNames.html">
 * <b>Java&trade;
 * Cryptography Architecture Standard Algorithm Name
 * Documentation</b></a></li>
 * </ul>
 *
 * <h2>Related Documentation</h2>
 *
 * For further documentation, please see:
 * <ul>
 * <li><a href=
 * "{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/security/spec/security-spec.doc.html">
 * <b>Java&trade;
 * SE Platform Security Architecture</b></a></li>
 *
 * <li><a href=
 * "{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/security/crypto/HowToImplAProvider.html">
 * <b>How to Implement a Provider in the
 * Java&trade; Cryptography Architecture
 * </b></a></li>
 *
 * <li><a href=
 * "{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/security/PolicyFiles.html"><b>
 * Default Policy Implementation and Policy File Syntax
 * </b></a></li>
 *
 * <li><a href=
 * "{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/security/permissions.html"><b>
 * Permissions in the
 * Java&trade; SE Development Kit (JDK)
 * </b></a></li>
 *
 * <li><a href=
 * "{@docRoot}/../technotes/guides/security/SecurityToolsSummary.html"><b>
 * Summary of Tools for
 * Java&trade; Platform Security
 * </b></a></li>
 *
 * <li><b>keytool</b>
 * (<a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/tools/unix/keytool.html">
 * for Solaris/Linux</a>)
 * (<a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/tools/windows/keytool.html">
 * for Windows</a>)
 * </li>
 *
 * <li><b>jarsigner</b>
 * (<a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/tools/unix/jarsigner.html">
 * for Solaris/Linux</a>)
 * (<a href="{@docRoot}/../technotes/tools/windows/jarsigner.html">
 * for Windows</a>)
 * </li>
 *
 * </ul>
 *
 * @since 1.1
 */
package java.security;