Certificate
Class Certificate
- java.lang.Object
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- javax.security.cert.Certificate
- Direct Known Subclasses:
- X509Certificate
public abstract class Certificate extends Object
Abstract class for managing a variety of identity certificates. An identity certificate is a guarantee by a principal that a public key is that of another principal. (A principal represents an entity such as an individual user, a group, or a corporation.)
This class is an abstraction for certificates that have different formats but important common uses. For example, different types of certificates, such as X.509 and PGP, share general certificate functionality (like encoding and verifying) and some types of i
