anon.crypto
Class X509CertificateIssuer

java.lang.Object
  anon.crypto.AbstractX509Extension
      anon.crypto.X509CertificateIssuer

public class X509CertificateIssuer
extends AbstractX509Extension

This class implements the CertificateIssuer Entry-Extension for X.509-CRLs as specified in RFC 5280.

Author:

Robert Hirschberger

See Also:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5280

Field Summary

static java.lang.String	IDENTIFIER
private X509DistinguishedName	m_issuer the distinguished name of the certificate's issuer

Constructor Summary

X509CertificateIssuer(org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERSequence a_extension)
Creates an new X509etificateIssuer object from a BouncyCastle DERSequence

X509CertificateIssuer(X509DistinguishedName a_issuer)
Create a new X509CertificateIssuer object from a given distinguished name.

Method Summary

private static byte[]	createDEROctets(X509DistinguishedName a_issuer) Generates the DEROctets of this extension to hand over to the super class.
private void	createValue() reads the distinguished name of the certificate issuer from the DEROctets
boolean	equalsIssuer(java.lang.Object a_object) Returns if the issuer's DN and a given DN are equal.
X509DistinguishedName	getDistinguishedName() Returns the X509DistinguishedName of the issuer represented by this extension
java.lang.String	getName() Returns the human-readable name of this extension.
java.util.Vector	getValues() This method returns all values of this extension in separated String objects.

Methods inherited from class anon.crypto.AbstractX509Extension

equals, getBCExtension, getDEROctets, getIdentifier, getInstance, hashCode, isCritical, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

IDENTIFIER

public static final java.lang.String IDENTIFIER

m_issuer

private X509DistinguishedName m_issuer

the distinguished name of the certificate's issuer

Constructor Detail

X509CertificateIssuer

public X509CertificateIssuer(X509DistinguishedName a_issuer)

Create a new X509CertificateIssuer object from a given distinguished name.

Parameters:

a_issuer - the distinguished name of the certificate's issuer

X509CertificateIssuer

public X509CertificateIssuer(org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERSequence a_extension)

Creates an new X509etificateIssuer object from a BouncyCastle DERSequence

Parameters:

a_extension - the extions as DERSequence

Method Detail

createDEROctets

private static byte[] createDEROctets(X509DistinguishedName a_issuer)

Generates the DEROctets of this extension to hand over to the super class.

Parameters:

a_issuer - the distinguished name of the certificate's issuer

Returns:

the DEROctets of this extension

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

Description copied from class: AbstractX509Extension

Returns the human-readable name of this extension.

Specified by:

getName in class AbstractX509Extension

Returns:

"CertificateIssuer"

createValue

private void createValue()

reads the distinguished name of the certificate issuer from the DEROctets

getValues

public java.util.Vector getValues()

Description copied from class: AbstractX509Extension

This method returns all values of this extension in separated String objects. The values should be human readable.

Specified by:

getValues in class AbstractX509Extension

Returns:

a human-readable vector containing the String-representation of the issuer's DN.

equalsIssuer

public boolean equalsIssuer(java.lang.Object a_object)

Returns if the issuer's DN and a given DN are equal. You may call this with a X509DistinguishedName or a BC X509Name object. Otherwise false is returned.

Returns:

if the issuer's DN and a given DN are equal

See Also:

X509DistinguishedName.equals()

getDistinguishedName

public X509DistinguishedName getDistinguishedName()

Returns the X509DistinguishedName of the issuer represented by this extension

Returns:

the issuer's X509DistinguishedName