Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

KeyManager

Synopsis

This is a marker interface to identify key manager objects. A key manager is responsible for obtaining and managing authentication credentials (such as a certificate chain and an associated private key) that the local host can use to authenticate itself to the remote host. It is usually used on the server-side of an SSL connection, but can be used on the client-side as well.

Use a KeyManagerFactory to obtain KeyManager objects. KeyManager objects returned by a KeyManagerFactory can always be cast to a subinterface specific to a particular type of authentication credentials. See X509KeyManager, for example.

public interface KeyManager {
}

Implementations

X509KeyManager

Passed To

SSLContext.init( ), SSLContextSpi.engineInit( )

Returned By

KeyManagerFactory.getKeyManagers( ), KeyManagerFactorySpi.engineGetKeyManagers( )