CertificateFactory
Class CertificateFactory
- java.lang.Object
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- java.security.cert.CertificateFactory
public class CertificateFactory extends Object
This class defines the functionality of a certificate factory, which is used to generate certificate, certification path (CertPath) and certificate revocation list (CRL) objects from their encodings.
For encodings consisting of multiple certificates, use generateCertificates when you want to parse a collection of possibly unrelated certificates. Otherwise, use generateCertPath when you want to generate a CertPath (a certificate chain) and subsequently validate it with a CertPathValidator.
A certificate factory for X.509 must return certificates that are an instance of <
