Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

This interface was used in Java 1.1 to represent an identity certificate. It has been deprecated as of Java 1.2 in favor of the java.security.cert package (see Chapter 19). See also java.security.cert.Certificate.

public interface 
Certificate  {
// Public Instance Methods
void 
decode (java.io.InputStream 
stream ) 
throws KeyException, java.io.IOException;  
void 
encode (java.io.OutputStream 
stream ) 
throws KeyException, java.io.IOException;  
String 
getFormat ( );  
Principal 
getGuarantor ( );  
Principal 
getPrincipal ( );  
PublicKey 
getPublicKey ( );  
String 
toString (boolean 
detailed );  
}

Passed To

Identity.{addCertificate( ), removeCertificate( )}

Returned By

Identity.certificates( )