Certificate

<p>Abstract class for managing a variety of identity certificates. An identity certificate is a binding of a principal to a key which is vouched for by another principal. (A principal represents an entity such as an individual user, a group, or a corporation.) <p> 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 key). <p> 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.

@see X509Certificate @see CertificateFactory

@author Hemma Prafullchandra

abstract

class Certificate {

this(string type);

string getType();

bool opEquals(Object other);

byte[] getEncoded();

void verify(PublicKey key);

void verify(PublicKey key, string sigProvider);

void verify(PublicKey key, Provider sigProvider);

PublicKey getPublicKey();

class CertificateRep;

}

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this this(string type): Creates a certificate of the specified type.

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CertificateRep class CertificateRep: Alternate Certificate class for serialization. @since 1.3

Functions

getEncoded byte[] getEncoded(): Returns the encoded form of this certificate. It is assumed that each certificate type would have only a single form of encoding; for example, X.509 certificates would be encoded as ASN.1 DER.
getPublicKey PublicKey getPublicKey(): Gets the key from this certificate.
getType string getType(): Returns the type of this certificate.
opEquals bool opEquals(Object other): Compares this certificate for equality with the specified object. If the {@code other} object is an {@code instanceof} {@code Certificate}, then its encoded form is retrieved and compared with the encoded form of this certificate.
verify void verify(PublicKey key): Verifies that this certificate was signed using the private key that corresponds to the specified key.
verify void verify(PublicKey key, string sigProvider): Verifies that this certificate was signed using the private key that corresponds to the specified key. This method uses the signature verification engine supplied by the specified provider.
verify void verify(PublicKey key, Provider sigProvider): Verifies that this certificate was signed using the private key that corresponds to the specified key. This method uses the signature verification engine supplied by the specified provider. Note that the specified Provider object does not have to be registered in the provider list.

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