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+using System;
+
+namespace Org.BouncyCastle.Crypto
+{
+    /**
+     * interface that a public/private key pair generator should conform to.
+     */
+    public interface IAsymmetricCipherKeyPairGenerator
+    {
+        /**
+         * intialise the key pair generator.
+         *
+         * @param the parameters the key pair is to be initialised with.
+         */
+        void Init(KeyGenerationParameters parameters);
+
+        /**
+         * return an AsymmetricCipherKeyPair containing the Generated keys.
+         *
+         * @return an AsymmetricCipherKeyPair containing the Generated keys.
+         */
+        AsymmetricCipherKeyPair GenerateKeyPair();
+    }
+}