org.bouncycastle.jce

Class PrincipalUtil


public class PrincipalUtil
extends java.lang.Object

a utility class that will extract X509Principal objects from X.509 certificates.

Use this in preference to trying to recreate a principal from a String, not all DNs are what they should be, so it's best to leave them encoded where they can be.

Method Summary

static X509Principal
getIssuerX509Principal(X509CRL crl)
return the issuer of the given CRL as an X509PrincipalObject.
static X509Principal
getIssuerX509Principal(X509Certificate cert)
return the issuer of the given cert as an X509PrincipalObject.
static X509Principal
getSubjectX509Principal(X509Certificate cert)
return the subject of the given cert as an X509PrincipalObject.

Method Details

getIssuerX509Principal

public static X509Principal getIssuerX509Principal(X509CRL crl)
            throws CRLException
return the issuer of the given CRL as an X509PrincipalObject.


getIssuerX509Principal

public static X509Principal getIssuerX509Principal(X509Certificate cert)
            throws CertificateEncodingException
return the issuer of the given cert as an X509PrincipalObject.


getSubjectX509Principal

public static X509Principal getSubjectX509Principal(X509Certificate cert)
            throws CertificateEncodingException
return the subject of the given cert as an X509PrincipalObject.