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| This package provides all the classes and all the interfaces needed to generate, administer and verify |
| X.509 certificates. |
| Functionality for parsing certificate, extracting information from them, validating and |
| verifying the information they contains are provided. |
| Exception are generated mainly for three reasons:<br> |
| - if the certificate's encoding is broken |
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| - if the certificate's time stamp is not valid |
| (CertificateExpiredException)<br> |
| - or if the validation's path is false (CertPathValidatorException). |
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| The functionality to check the different entries and extension fields of X.509 certificates are also provided. |
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