Java Security

Name

Interface java.security.cert.X509Extension

Synopsis

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 non-critical. An application that handles a certificate should either correctly interpret the critical extensions or produce some kind of error if they cannot be recognized.

Class Definition

public abstract interface java.security.cert.X509Extension {

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

See also:

X509CRLEntry, X509Certificate, X509CRL