edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io
Class X509CertificatesCredentialReader

java.lang.Object
  edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io.AbstractX509CredentialReader<X509Certificate[]>
      edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io.X509CertificatesCredentialReader

All Implemented Interfaces:

CredentialReader<X509Certificate[]>

public class X509CertificatesCredentialReader
extends AbstractX509CredentialReader<X509Certificate[]>

Reads collections of encoded X.509 certificates from a resource. Both PEM and DER encodings are supported, as well as certificate chains in PKCS#7 format.

Version:

$Revision: 2744 $

Author:

Middleware Services

Constructor Summary

X509CertificatesCredentialReader()

Method Summary

X509Certificate[]

read(InputStream in) Reads a credential, commonly in encoded format, from the given input stream.

Methods inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.crypt.io.AbstractX509CredentialReader

getX509CertificateFactory, read

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

X509CertificatesCredentialReader

public X509CertificatesCredentialReader()

Method Detail

read

public X509Certificate[] read(InputStream in)
                       throws IOException,
                              CryptException

Reads a credential, commonly in encoded format, from the given input stream.

Parameters:

in - Input stream from which to read credential.

Returns:

Credential read from input stream.

Throws:

IOException - On IO exceptions.

CryptException - On cryptography errors such as invalid formats, unsupported ciphers, illegal settings.