ICertificate Interface

Definition

[Android.Runtime.Register("java/security/Certificate", "", "Java.Security.ICertificateInvoker")]
[System.Obsolete("This class is obsoleted in this android platform")]
public interface ICertificate : Android.Runtime.IJavaObject, IDisposable, Java.Interop.IJavaPeerable

[<Android.Runtime.Register("java/security/Certificate", "", "Java.Security.ICertificateInvoker")>]
[<System.Obsolete("This class is obsoleted in this android platform")>]
type ICertificate = interface
    interface IJavaObject
    interface IDisposable
    interface IJavaPeerable

Attributes

RegisterAttribute ObsoleteAttribute

Implements

IJavaObject IJavaPeerable IDisposable

Remarks

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.)

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.

<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 validity of the binding. It is the duty of the application implementing this interface to verify the certificate and satisfy itself of its validity.

Added in 1.1.

This member is deprecated. This class is deprecated and subject to removal in a future version of Java SE. It has been replaced by java.security.cert.Certificate and related classes.

Java documentation for java.security.Certificate.

Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by the Android Open Source Project and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 2.5 Attribution License.

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Applies to