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/**
* @author Boris V. Kuznetsov
* @version $Revision$
*/

package java.security;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * {@code SecureRandomSpi} is the <i>Service Provider Interface</i> (<b>SPI</b>) definition
 * for {@link SecureRandom}. 
 * 
 * @see SecureRandom
 * @since Android 1.0
 */
public abstract class SecureRandomSpi implements Serializable {
    
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -2991854161009191830L;
                
    /**
     * Reseeds this {@code SecureRandomSpi} instance with the specified {@code
     * seed}. The seed of this {@code SecureRandomSpi} instance is supplemented,
     * not replaced.
     * 
     * @param seed
     *            the new seed.
     * @since Android 1.0
     */
    protected abstract void engineSetSeed(byte[] seed);
    
    /**
     * Generates and stores random bytes in the given {@code byte[]} for each
     * array element.
     * 
     * @param bytes
     *            the {@code byte[]} to be filled with random bytes.
     * @since Android 1.0
     */
    protected abstract void engineNextBytes(byte[] bytes);
    
    /**
     * Generates and returns the specified number of seed bytes, computed using
     * the seed generation algorithm used by this {@code SecureRandomSpi}.
     * 
     * @param numBytes
     *            the number of seed bytes.
     * @return the seed bytes
     * @since Android 1.0
     */
    protected abstract byte[] engineGenerateSeed(int numBytes);
}