TrustAnchor
Class TrustAnchor
- java.lang.Object
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- java.security.cert.TrustAnchor
public class TrustAnchor extends Object
A trust anchor or most-trusted Certification Authority (CA).
This class represents a "most-trusted CA", which is used as a trust anchor for validating X.509 certification paths. A most-trusted CA includes the public key of the CA, the CA's name, and any constraints upon the set of paths which may be validated using this key. These parameters can be specified in the form of a trusted X509Certificate
or as individual parameters.
Concurrent Access
All TrustAnchor
objects must be immutable and thread-safe. That is, multiple threads may concurrently invoke the methods defined in this class on a single TrustAnch