oracle.security.crypto.cert
Interface CertificateTrustPolicy

All Known Implementing Classes:

TrustedCAPolicy

public interface CertificateTrustPolicy

A generic interface for implementing a particular certificate verification scheme, via the CertificateVerifier interface, such as constructing and verifying certificate chains.

See Also:

TrustedCAPolicy

Method Summary

CertificateVerifier

makeCertificateVerifier(java.util.Vector certificates, java.util.Vector crls) Creates a new instance of CertificateVerifier which will use the given certificate and CRL lists to implement a particular certificate verification scheme, such a forming valid certificate chains.

Method Detail

makeCertificateVerifier

public CertificateVerifier makeCertificateVerifier(java.util.Vector certificates,
                                                   java.util.Vector crls)

Creates a new instance of CertificateVerifier which will use the given certificate and CRL lists to implement a particular certificate verification scheme, such a forming valid certificate chains.

Either argument to this method may be null, and such a case must be treated exactly the same as if the particular argument was an empty vector.