es.caib.signatura.api
Interface Certificate

All Known Implementing Classes:

CertificateImpl

public interface Certificate

Interface to access to the information contained into a digital certificate. It provides needed methods to get different attributes of the certificate.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Pau Carré Cardona

See Also:

Certificate

Method Summary

java.security.cert.X509Certificate	getCert() Returns the X509 Certificate.
java.lang.String	getCertCaName() Gets the name of the certification authority.
java.lang.String	getCertSubjectAlternativeNames() Gets the concatenation of the subject's alternate name as follows: name0 = value, name1 = value, ...
java.lang.String	getCertSubjectCommonName() Gets the subject's Common Name of the certificate.
ParsedCertificate	getParsedCertificate() Gets a ParsedCertificate object with the subject's credentials.
boolean	verify() Verify the certificate and its certification chain.

Method Detail

getCertCaName

java.lang.String getCertCaName()

Gets the name of the certification authority.

Returns:

the name of the certificate authority.

getCertSubjectCommonName

java.lang.String getCertSubjectCommonName()

Gets the subject's Common Name of the certificate.

Returns:

the subject common name.

getCertSubjectAlternativeNames

java.lang.String getCertSubjectAlternativeNames()

Gets the concatenation of the subject's alternate name as follows: name0 = value, name1 = value, ...

Returns:

a string containing the subject's alternate name of the certificate.

getCert

java.security.cert.X509Certificate getCert()

Returns the X509 Certificate.

Returns:

the X509Certificate.

getParsedCertificate

ParsedCertificate getParsedCertificate()

Gets a ParsedCertificate object with the subject's credentials.

Returns:

a ParsedCertificate object with the subject's credentials.

verify

boolean verify()
               throws java.io.IOException,
                      CertificateVerifyException

Verify the certificate and its certification chain.

Returns:

true if verification is successful false otherwise.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if unable to access to the file.

CertificateVerifyException - if it hasn't been able to finish the verification process.