December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 27m
English
public abstract class Certificate
extends Object

The Certificate class is an abstract base class for a number of concrete Certificate classes. A certificate serves to validate that a digital signature belongs to the alleged signer, such as an individual or company. Certificates can be self-generated or obtained from a certificate authority (CA). A self-generated certificate would be appropriate for an intranet application. For an applet from an external source, in general, you would only want to accept a certificate from a certificate authority. You should also be aware that a certificate may ...
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