Package org.symphonyoss.s2.common.crypto.cert

Interface IMasterCertificate

All Superinterfaces:

ICertificate, IIntermediateCertificate, IOpenCertificate

public interface IMasterCertificate
extends IIntermediateCertificate

A certificate capable of creating signing certificates, which must be open (i.e. the private key must be available) and which is implicitly also capable of creating end user certificates.

Author:

Bruce Skingle

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
IIntermediateCertificate	createIntermediateCert(CertificateBuilder builder)	Create a certificate signing certificate.

Methods inherited from interface org.symphonyoss.s2.common.crypto.cert.ICertificate

getAsymmetricCipherSuite, getPublicKey, getX509Certificate, getX509CertificateChain

Methods inherited from interface org.symphonyoss.s2.common.crypto.cert.IIntermediateCertificate

createUserSigningCert

Methods inherited from interface org.symphonyoss.s2.common.crypto.cert.IOpenCertificate

getPrivateKey, sign, store, storeUserKeystore

Method Detail

createIntermediateCert

IIntermediateCertificate createIntermediateCert(CertificateBuilder builder)
                                         throws java.security.cert.CertificateException

Create a certificate signing certificate.

Parameters:

builder - A CertificateBuilder configured with the parameters for the new certificate. NB the certType will be forced to Intermediate by this method.

Returns:

A certificate signing certificate.

Throws:

java.security.cert.CertificateException - If the request fails.