X509CertificatePair

Class Overview

This class represents an X.509 Certificate Pair object, which is primarily used to hold a pair of cross certificates issued between Certification Authorities. The ASN.1 structure is listed below. The forward certificate of the CertificatePair contains a certificate issued to this CA by another CA. The reverse certificate of the CertificatePair contains a certificate issued by this CA to another CA. When both the forward and the reverse certificates are present in the CertificatePair, the issuer name in one certificate shall match the subject name in the other and vice versa, and the subject public key in one certificate shall be capable of verifying the digital signature on the other certificate and vice versa. If a subject public key in one certificate does not contain required key algorithm parameters, then the signature check involving that key is not done.

The ASN.1 syntax for this object is:

 CertificatePair      ::=     SEQUENCE {
      forward [0]     Certificate OPTIONAL,
      reverse [1]     Certificate OPTIONAL
                      -- at least one of the pair shall be present -- }
 

This structure uses EXPLICIT tagging. References: Annex A of X.509(2000), X.509(1997).

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From class java.lang.Object Object clone() Creates and returns a copy of this object. boolean equals(Object obj) Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. void finalize() Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection determines that there are no more references to the object. final Class<?> getClass() Returns the runtime class of this Object. int hashCode() Returns a hash code value for the object. final void notify() Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor. final void notifyAll() Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor. String toString() Returns a string representation of the object. final void wait() Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the notify() method or the notifyAll() method for this object. final void wait(long timeout, int nanos) Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the notify() method or the notifyAll() method for this object, or some other thread interrupts the current thread, or a certain amount of real time has elapsed. final void wait(long timeout) Causes the current thread to wait until either another thread invokes the notify() method or the notifyAll() method for this object, or a specified amount of time has elapsed.