PasswordEncryptor (Camunda Platform Javadocs 7.19.0-SNAPSHOT)

All Known Implementing Classes:

Sha512HashDigest, ShaHashDigest
```
public interface PasswordEncryptor
```
The PasswordEncryptor provides the api to customize the encryption of passwords.

Author:

Daniel Meyer, nico.rehwaldt

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`check(String password, String encrypted)`	Returns true if the given plain text equals to the encrypted password.
`String`	`encrypt(String password)`	Encrypt the given password
`String`	`hashAlgorithmName()`	In order to distinguish which algorithm was used to hash the password, it needs a unique id.

- Method Detail
  - encrypt
```
String encrypt(String password)
```
    Encrypt the given password
    
    Parameters:
    
    password -
    
    Returns:
  - check
```
boolean check(String password,
              String encrypted)
```
    Returns true if the given plain text equals to the encrypted password.
    
    Parameters:
    
    password -
    
    encrypted -
    
    Returns:
  - hashAlgorithmName
```
String hashAlgorithmName()
```
    In order to distinguish which algorithm was used to hash the password, it needs a unique id. In particular, this is needed for check(java.lang.String, java.lang.String).
    
    Returns:
    
    the name of the algorithm