Java Cryptography

Name

Interface java.security.cert.X509Extension

Description

The X509Extension interface represents the certificate extensions defined by the X.509v3 standard. Extensions are additional bits of information contained in a certificate. Each extension is designated as critical or noncritical. An application that handles a certificate should either correctly interpret the critical extensions or produce some kind of error if they cannot be recognized.

Interface Definition

public abstract interface java.security.cert.X509Extension {

  // Instance Methods
  public abstract Set getCriticalExtensionOIDs();
  public abstract byte[] getExtensionValue(String);
  public abstract Set getNonCriticalExtensionOIDs();
}

See Also

RevokedCertificate, X509Certificate, X509CRL