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authorCasey Marshall <csm@gnu.org>2003-04-23 23:09:18 +0000
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+/* PKIXCertPathChecker.java -- checks X.509 certificate paths.
+ Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+This file is part of GNU Classpath.
+
+GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+any later version.
+
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+WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+General Public License for more details.
+
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+along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
+Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
+02111-1307 USA.
+
+Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is
+making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and
+conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole
+combination.
+
+As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
+permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
+executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
+modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under
+terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked
+independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that
+module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from
+or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend
+this exception to your version of the library, but you are not
+obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this
+exception statement from your version. */
+
+
+package java.security.cert;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Set;
+
+/**
+ * A validator for X.509 certificates when approving certificate chains.
+ *
+ * <p>Concrete subclasses can be passed to the {@link
+ * PKIXParameters#setCertPathCheckers(java.util.List)} and {@link
+ * PKIXParameters#addCertPathChecker(java.security.cert.PKIXCertPathChecker}
+ * methods, which are then used to set up PKIX certificate chain
+ * builders or validators. These classes then call the {@link
+ * #check(java.security.cert.Certificate,java.util.Collection)} method
+ * of this class, performing whatever checks on the certificate,
+ * throwing an exception if any check fails.
+ *
+ * <p>Subclasses of this must be able to perform their checks in the
+ * backward direction -- from the most-trusted certificate to the target
+ * -- and may optionally support forward checking -- from the target to
+ * the most-trusted certificate.
+ *
+ * @see PKIXParameters
+ */
+public abstract class PKIXCertPathChecker implements Cloneable
+{
+
+ // Constructor.
+ // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ /** Default constructor. */
+ protected PKIXCertPathChecker()
+ {
+ super();
+ }
+
+ // Cloneable interface.
+ // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ public Object clone()
+ {
+ try
+ {
+ return super.clone();
+ }
+ catch (CloneNotSupportedException cnse)
+ {
+ throw new InternalError(cnse.getMessage());
+ }
+ }
+
+ // Abstract methods.
+ // ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ /**
+ * Initialize this PKIXCertPathChecker. If subclasses support forward
+ * checking, a value of true can be passed to this method, and
+ * certificates can be validated from the target certificate to the
+ * most-trusted certifcate.
+ *
+ * @param forward The direction of this PKIXCertPathChecker.
+ * @throws CertPathValidatorException If <i>forward</i> is true and
+ * this class does not support forward checking.
+ */
+ public abstract void init(boolean forward) throws CertPathValidatorException;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns whether or not this class supports forward checking.
+ *
+ * @return Whether or not this class supports forward checking.
+ */
+ public abstract boolean isForwardCheckingSupported();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an immutable set of X.509 extension object identifiers (OIDs)
+ * supported by this PKIXCertPathChecker.
+ *
+ * @return An immutable set of Strings of the supported X.509 OIDs, or
+ * null if no extensions are supported.
+ */
+ public abstract Set getSupportedExtensions();
+
+ /**
+ * Checks a certificate, removing any critical extensions that are
+ * resolved in this check.
+ *
+ * @param cert The certificate to check.
+ * @param unresolvedCritExts The (mutable) collection of as-of-yet
+ * unresolved critical extensions, as OID strings.
+ * @throws CertPathValidatorException If this certificate fails this
+ * check.
+ */
+ public abstract void check(Certificate cert, Collection unresolvedCritExts)
+ throws CertPathValidatorException;
+}