users
Interface PassWDGarbler

public interface PassWDGarbler

extends Serializable

Strategy to be used when garbling passwords. A concrete implementation of this interface can be found in User.DEFAULT_PASSWORD_GARBLER.

Hooks:

Define Password Garbling Algorithm

Since:

v2.0

Version:

2.0 05/05/1999

Author:

Steffen Zschaler

See Also:

User.setGlobalPassWDGarbler(users.PassWDGarbler), User.garblePassWD(java.lang.String)

Method Summary

String

garblePassWD(String sPassWD) Garble the given password and return the result.

Method Detail

garblePassWD

public String garblePassWD(String sPassWD)

Garble the given password and return the result.

You can implement any garbling algorithm as long as the follwoing conditions hold:

1. It takes a string and returns a string.
2. Different passwords give different results.
3. The same password gives the same result in subsequent calls.

Override:

Always.

Parameters:

sPassWD - the password to be garbled.

Returns:

the garbled password.

Hooks:

Define Password Garbling Algorithm

See Also:

User.garblePassWD(java.lang.String), User.isPassWd(java.lang.String)