Package org.certificateservices.messages

Interface PKCS11ProviderManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultPKCS11ProviderManager

public interface PKCS11ProviderManager

Interface to support a PKCS#11 provider manager in charge of creating, adding and loading a java PKCS#11 keystore.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.lang.String	addPKCS11Provider(java.io.InputStream config)	Create and add a PKCS#11 provider to the system
java.security.KeyStore	loadPKCS11Keystore(char[] password)	Load the PKCS#11 keystore and make it available for use.

Method Detail

addPKCS11Provider

java.lang.String addPKCS11Provider(java.io.InputStream config)
                            throws java.lang.SecurityException,
                                   java.lang.NullPointerException,
                                   java.security.ProviderException

Create and add a PKCS#11 provider to the system

Parameters:

config - Configuration to use when creating the provider

Returns:

the name of the created provider.

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - If an empty provider was created based on the configuration.

java.lang.SecurityException - If a security manager exists and its SecurityManager.checkSecurityAccess method denies access to add a new provider

java.security.ProviderException - If error occurred when creating the provider.

loadPKCS11Keystore

java.security.KeyStore loadPKCS11Keystore(char[] password)
                                   throws java.security.KeyStoreException,
                                          java.security.cert.CertificateException,
                                          java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException,
                                          java.io.IOException

Load the PKCS#11 keystore and make it available for use.

Parameters:

password - PKCS#11 Password to use when loading keystore

Returns:

Java PKCS#11 keystore

Throws:

java.security.KeyStoreException - If error occurred when instantiating the keystore.

java.security.cert.CertificateException - If any of the certificates in the keystore could not be loaded.

java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException - if the algorithm used to check the integrity of the keystore cannot be found

java.io.IOException - If there was a problem loading the keystore (not found or incorrect password).