org.mozilla.jss.crypto
Interface TokenCertificate

All Superinterfaces:

X509Certificate

All Known Implementing Classes:

PK11InternalTokenCert, PK11TokenCert

public interface TokenCertificate

extends X509Certificate

An X509 Certificate that lives on a PKCS #11 token. Many of the X509Certificates returned by JSS calls are actually TokenCertificates. To find out if an X509Certificate is a TokenCertificate, use instanceof.

Method Summary

CryptoToken	getOwningToken() Returns the CryptoToken that owns this certificate.
byte[]	getUniqueID() Deprecated. This ID is based on an implementation that might change. If this functionality is required, it should be provided in another way, such as a function that directly matches a cert and key.

Methods inherited from interface org.mozilla.jss.crypto.X509Certificate

getEncoded, getIssuerDN, getNickname, getPublicKey, getSerialNumber, getSubjectDN, getVersion

Method Detail

getUniqueID

public byte[] getUniqueID()

Deprecated. This ID is based on an implementation that might change. If this functionality is required, it should be provided in another way, such as a function that directly matches a cert and key.

Returns the unique ID of this key. Unique IDs can be used to match certificates to keys.

See Also:

PrivateKey.getUniqueID()

getOwningToken

public CryptoToken getOwningToken()

Returns the CryptoToken that owns this certificate. Cryptographic operations with this key may only be performed on the token that owns the key.