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+/*
+ * Copyright 1996-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
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+ */
+
+package java.security;
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.Date;
+
+/**
+ * <p>This is an interface of abstract methods 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.)
+ *
+ * <p>In particular, this interface is intended to be a common
+ * abstraction for constructs that have different formats but
+ * important common uses. For example, different types of
+ * certificates, such as X.509 certificates and PGP certificates,
+ * share general certificate functionality (the need to encode and
+ * decode certificates) and some types of information, such as a
+ * public key, the principal whose key it is, and the guarantor
+ * guaranteeing that the public key is that of the specified
+ * principal. So an implementation of X.509 certificates and an
+ * implementation of PGP certificates can both utilize the Certificate
+ * interface, even though their formats and additional types and
+ * amounts of information stored are different.
+ *
+ * <p><b>Important</b>: This interface is useful for cataloging and
+ * grouping objects sharing certain common uses. It does not have any
+ * semantics of its own. In particular, a Certificate object does not
+ * make any statement as to the <i>validity</i> of the binding. It is
+ * the duty of the application implementing this interface to verify
+ * the certificate and satisfy itself of its validity.
+ *
+ * @author Benjamin Renaud
+ * @deprecated A new certificate handling package is created in the Java platform.
+ * This Certificate interface is entirely deprecated and
+ * is here to allow for a smooth transition to the new
+ * package.
+ * @see java.security.cert.Certificate
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface Certificate {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the guarantor of the certificate, that is, the principal
+ * guaranteeing that the public key associated with this certificate
+ * is that of the principal associated with this certificate. For X.509
+ * certificates, the guarantor will typically be a Certificate Authority
+ * (such as the United States Postal Service or Verisign, Inc.).
+ *
+ * @return the guarantor which guaranteed the principal-key
+ * binding.
+ */
+ public abstract Principal getGuarantor();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the principal of the principal-key pair being guaranteed by
+ * the guarantor.
+ *
+ * @return the principal to which this certificate is bound.
+ */
+ public abstract Principal getPrincipal();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the key of the principal-key pair being guaranteed by
+ * the guarantor.
+ *
+ * @return the public key that this certificate certifies belongs
+ * to a particular principal.
+ */
+ public abstract PublicKey getPublicKey();
+
+ /**
+ * Encodes the certificate to an output stream in a format that can
+ * be decoded by the <code>decode</code> method.
+ *
+ * @param stream the output stream to which to encode the
+ * certificate.
+ *
+ * @exception KeyException if the certificate is not
+ * properly initialized, or data is missing, etc.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException if a stream exception occurs while
+ * trying to output the encoded certificate to the output stream.
+ *
+ * @see #decode
+ * @see #getFormat
+ */
+ public abstract void encode(OutputStream stream)
+ throws KeyException, IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Decodes a certificate from an input stream. The format should be
+ * that returned by <code>getFormat</code> and produced by
+ * <code>encode</code>.
+ *
+ * @param stream the input stream from which to fetch the data
+ * being decoded.
+ *
+ * @exception KeyException if the certificate is not properly initialized,
+ * or data is missing, etc.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException if an exception occurs while trying to input
+ * the encoded certificate from the input stream.
+ *
+ * @see #encode
+ * @see #getFormat
+ */
+ public abstract void decode(InputStream stream)
+ throws KeyException, IOException;
+
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the name of the coding format. This is used as a hint to find
+ * an appropriate parser. It could be "X.509", "PGP", etc. This is
+ * the format produced and understood by the <code>encode</code>
+ * and <code>decode</code> methods.
+ *
+ * @return the name of the coding format.
+ */
+ public abstract String getFormat();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns a string that represents the contents of the certificate.
+ *
+ * @param detailed whether or not to give detailed information
+ * about the certificate
+ *
+ * @return a string representing the contents of the certificate
+ */
+ public String toString(boolean detailed);
+}