com.strangelight.db
Class Cleartext

java.lang.Object
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        +--com.strangelight.db.Cleartext

public class Cleartext

extends MyString

An extension of MyString specifically for manipulating cleartext (non-encrypted) passwords.

See Also:

Cryptword

Constructor Summary

Cleartext()

Cleartext(MyString s)

Cleartext(java.lang.String s)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(MyString compareTo) Tests for equality between this Cleartext string and another string.
Cryptword	toCryptword() Encrypts this Cleartext string using a secure one-way hash algorithm.

Methods inherited from class com.strangelight.util.MyString

concat, concat, concat, equals, getBytes, length, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Cleartext

public Cleartext()

Cleartext

public Cleartext(MyString s)

Cleartext

public Cleartext(java.lang.String s)

Method Detail

equals

public boolean equals(MyString compareTo)

Tests for equality between this Cleartext string and another string. The exact definition of "equality" depends on the type of the compareTo string. If compareTo is of type Cryptword, then equals returns true if and only if* this string is the cleartext form of compareTo. Thus equals can be used to compare an encrypted string with an unencrypted string, without explicitly encrypting or decrypting either one. In other words, s.equals(s.toCryptword()) will always return true.

(*For all practical purposes. It is theoretically possible for two different Cleartext strings to encrypt to the same Cryptword, so the "and only if" part of this assertion is not technically true, though the odds of such "key collisions" are infinitessimal.)

Overrides:

equals in class MyString

Parameters:

compareTo - An instance of MyString to compare to this one for equality.

Returns:

true if this string and the compareTo string are equal, false otherwise. See above for the exact definition of "equal".

toCryptword

public Cryptword toCryptword()

Encrypts this Cleartext string using a secure one-way hash algorithm.

Returns:

a Cryptword representation of this string.

See Also:

Cryptword