users
Interface PassWDGarbler

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

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.

Since:

v2.0

Author:

Steffen Zschaler

See Also:

User.setGlobalPassWDGarbler(users.PassWDGarbler), User.garblePassWD(char[])

Method Summary

char[]

garblePassWD(char[] sPassWD) Garble the given password and return the result.

Method Detail

garblePassWD

public char[] garblePassWD(char[] 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 char[] and returns a char[].
2. Different passwords give different results.
3. The same password gives the same result in subsequent calls.

Parameters:

sPassWD - the password to be garbled.

Returns:

the garbled password.

See Also:

User.garblePassWD(char[]), User.isPassWd(char[])

Override:

Always