Package javax.security.auth.x500

Package javax.security.auth.x500

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Java 1.4

This package defines classes for use with authentication schemes for on X.500 principals. Instances of these classes are designed to be stored in the principals and private credentials sets of Subject objects, and although application programmers may occasionally find the X500Principal class useful, they are primarily of interest to system-level programmers writing X.500-based javax.security.auth.spi.LoginModule implementations See also the java.security.cert package which contains a class representing an X.509 certificate.

Classes

 public final class  X500Principal  implements java.security.Principal, Serializable; public final class  X500PrivateCredential  implements javax.security.auth.Destroyable;