com.ibm.crypto.provider
Class X509Factory

java.lang.Object
  java.security.cert.CertificateFactorySpi
      com.ibm.crypto.provider.X509Factory

public class X509Factory

extends CertificateFactorySpi

This class defines a certificate factory for X.509 v3 certificates and X.509 v2 certificate revocation lists (CRLs).

See Also:

CertificateFactorySpi, Certificate, CRL, X509Certificate, X509CRL, X509CertImpl, X509CRLImpl

Field Summary

static String	BEGIN_CERT
static String	END_CERT

Constructor Summary

X509Factory()

Method Summary

Certificate	engineGenerateCertificate(InputStream is) Generates an X.509 certificate object and initializes it with the data read from the input stream is.
Collection	engineGenerateCertificates(InputStream is) Returns a (possibly empty) collection view of X.509 certificates read from the given input stream is.
CRL	engineGenerateCRL(InputStream is) Generates an X.509 certificate revocation list (CRL) object and initializes it with the data read from the given input stream is.
Collection	engineGenerateCRLs(InputStream is) Returns a (possibly empty) collection view of X.509 CRLs read from the given input stream is.

Methods inherited from class java.security.cert.CertificateFactorySpi

engineGenerateCertPath, engineGenerateCertPath, engineGenerateCertPath, engineGetCertPathEncodings

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

BEGIN_CERT

public static final String BEGIN_CERT

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Constant Field Values

END_CERT

public static final String END_CERT

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

X509Factory

public X509Factory()

Method Detail

engineGenerateCertificate

public Certificate engineGenerateCertificate(InputStream is)
                                      throws CertificateException

Generates an X.509 certificate object and initializes it with the data read from the input stream is.

Parameters:

is - an input stream with the certificate data.

Returns:

an X.509 certificate object initialized with the data from the input stream.

Throws:

CertificateException - on parsing errors.

engineGenerateCertificates

public Collection engineGenerateCertificates(InputStream is)
                                      throws CertificateException

Returns a (possibly empty) collection view of X.509 certificates read from the given input stream is.

Parameters:

is - the input stream with the certificates.

Returns:

a (possibly empty) collection view of X.509 certificate objects initialized with the data from the input stream.

Throws:

CertificateException - on parsing errors.

engineGenerateCRL

public CRL engineGenerateCRL(InputStream is)
                      throws CRLException

Generates an X.509 certificate revocation list (CRL) object and initializes it with the data read from the given input stream is.

Parameters:

is - an input stream with the CRL data.

Returns:

an X.509 CRL object initialized with the data from the input stream.

Throws:

CRLException - on parsing errors.

engineGenerateCRLs

public Collection engineGenerateCRLs(InputStream is)
                              throws CRLException

Returns a (possibly empty) collection view of X.509 CRLs read from the given input stream is.

Parameters:

is - the input stream with the CRLs.

Returns:

a (possibly empty) collection view of X.509 CRL objects initialized with the data from the input stream.

Throws:

CRLException - on parsing errors.