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This is
a marker interface to identify key manager objects. A key manager is
responsible for obtaining and managing authentication credentials
(such as a certificate chain and an associated private key) that the
local host can use to authenticate itself to the remote host. It is
usually used on the server-side of an SSL connection, but can be used
on the client-side as well.

Use a KeyManagerFactory to obtain
KeyManager objects. KeyManager
objects returned by a KeyManagerFactory can always
be cast to a subinterface specific to a particular type of
authentication credentials. See X509KeyManager,
for example.

public interface

KeyManager {
}

Implementations

X509KeyManager

Passed To

SSLContext.init( ),
SSLContextSpi.engineInit( )

Returned By

KeyManagerFactory.getKeyManagers( ),
KeyManagerFactorySpi.engineGetKeyManagers( )