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java.lang.Object | +--javax.security.cert.Certificate
Abstract class for managing a variety of identity certificates. An identity certificate is a guarantee by a principal that a public key is that of another principal. (A principal represents an entity such as an individual user, a group, or a corporation.)
This class is an abstraction for certificates that have different formats but important common uses. For example, different types of certificates, such as X.509 and PGP, share general certificate functionality (like encoding and verifying) and some types of information (like a public key).
X.509, PGP, and SDSI certificates can all be implemented by subclassing the Certificate class, even though they contain different sets of information, and they store and retrieve the information in different ways.
Constructor Summary | |
Certificate()
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Method Summary | |
abstract boolean |
equals(Object obj)
Compares this certificate for equality with the specified object. |
abstract byte[] |
getEncoded()
Returns the encoded form of this certificate. |
abstract PublicKey |
getPublicKey()
Gets the public key from this certificate. |
abstract int |
hashCode()
Returns a hashcode value for this certificate from its encoded form |
abstract String |
toString()
Returns a string representation of this certificate. |
abstract void |
verify(PublicKey key)
Verifies that this certificate was signed using the private key that corresponds to the specified public key. |
abstract void |
verify(PublicKey key,
String sigProvider)
Verifies that this certificate was signed using the private key that corresponds to the specified public key. |
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object |
clone,
finalize,
getClass,
notify,
notifyAll,
wait,
wait,
wait |
Constructor Detail |
public Certificate()
Method Detail |
public abstract boolean equals(Object obj)
public abstract int hashCode()
public abstract byte[] getEncoded() throws CertificateEncodingException
public abstract PublicKey getPublicKey()
public abstract String toString()
public abstract void verify(PublicKey key) throws CertificateException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeyException, NoSuchProviderException, SignatureException
key
- the PublicKey used to carry out the verification.public abstract void verify(PublicKey key, String sigProvider) throws CertificateException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, InvalidKeyException, NoSuchProviderException, SignatureException
key
- the PublicKey used to carry out the verification.
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