Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

Package java.security.cert

Synopsis

The java.security.cert package contains classes for working with identity certificates, certificate chains (also known as certification paths) and certificate revocation lists (CRLs). It defines generic Certificate and CRL classes and also X509Certificate and X509CRL classes that provide full support for standard X.509 certificates and CRLs. The CertPath class represents a certificate chain, and CertPathValidator provides the ability to validate a certificate chain. The CertificateFactory class serves as a certificate parser, providing the ability to convert a stream of bytes (or the base64 encoding of those bytes) into a Certificate, a CertPath or a CRL object. In addition to the algorithm-independent API of CertificateFactory, this package also defines low-level algorithm-specific classes for working with certificate chains using the PKIX standards.

This package replaces the deprecated java.security.Certificate interface, and it also replaces the deprecated javax.security.cert package used by early versions of the JAAS API before javax.security.auth and its subpackages were added to the core Java platform.

Interfaces

public interface CertPathBuilderResult extends Cloneable;
public interface CertPathParameters extends Cloneable;
public interface CertPathValidatorResult extends Cloneable;
public interface CertSelector extends Cloneable;
public interface CertStoreParameters extends Cloneable;
public interface CRLSelector extends Cloneable; ...