Certificate JDK 1.6)

Description

@Deprecated
public interface Certificate

This is an interface of abstract methods for managing a variety of identity certificates.

See also: Certificate

Methods

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public void decode (InputStream stream) throws KeyException IOException

Decodes a certificate from an input stream.

Decodes a certificate from an input stream. The format should be
that returned by getFormat and produced by
encode.
Parameters:
- stream - the input stream from which to fetch the data being decoded.
Throws:
- KeyException - if the certificate is not properly initialized, or data is missing, etc.
- IOException - if an exception occurs while trying to input the encoded certificate from the input stream.
See Also: Certificate.encode(java.io.OutputStream), Certificate.getFormat(),

public void encode (OutputStream stream) throws KeyException IOException

Encodes the certificate to an output stream in a format that can be decoded by the decode method.

Encodes the certificate to an output stream in a format that can
be decoded by the decode method.
Parameters:
- stream - the output stream to which to encode the certificate.
Throws:
- KeyException - if the certificate is not properly initialized, or data is missing, etc.
- IOException - if a stream exception occurs while trying to output the encoded certificate to the output stream.
See Also: Certificate.decode(java.io.InputStream), Certificate.getFormat(),

public String getFormat ()

Returns the name of the coding format.

Returns the name of the coding format. This is used as a hint to find
an appropriate parser. It could be "X.509", "PGP", etc. This is
the format produced and understood by the encode
and decode methods.
Returns: the name of the coding format.

public Principal getGuarantor ()

Returns the guarantor of the certificate, that is, the principal guaranteeing that the public key associated with this certificate is that of the principal associated with this certificate.

public Principal getPrincipal ()

Returns the principal of the principal-key pair being guaranteed by the guarantor.

public PublicKey getPublicKey ()

Returns the key of the principal-key pair being guaranteed by the guarantor.

public String toString (boolean detailed)

Returns a string that represents the contents of the certificate.