net.sf.mmm.crypto.asymmetric.cert

Interface CertificateCreator

public interface CertificateCreator

Interface to generate or deserialize Certificates as well to extract CertificateData from a Certificate.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Joerg Hohwiller (hohwille at users.sourceforge.net)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Certificate	createCertificate(byte[] certificate)
Certificate	generateCertificate(AsymmetricKeyPair<?,?> keyPair, CertificateData certificateData)
CertificateData	getCertificateData(Certificate certificate)

Method Detail

createCertificate

Certificate createCertificate(byte[] certificate)

Parameters:

certificate - the Certificate as raw byte array.

Returns:

the deserialized Certificate.

generateCertificate

Certificate generateCertificate(AsymmetricKeyPair<?,?> keyPair,
                                CertificateData certificateData)

Parameters:

keyPair - the AsymmetricKeyPair.

certificateData - the CertificateData.

Returns:

the generated self-signed Certificate.

getCertificateData

CertificateData getCertificateData(Certificate certificate)

Parameters:

certificate - the Certificate.

Returns:

the CertificateData with the meta-data from the certificate.