com.guardtime.ksi.publication

Interface PublicationsFile

public interface PublicationsFile

KSI trust store provides trusted certificates and publications for verifying KSI signatures. It provides methods for getting trusted certificates for verifying authentication records and a list of publications for verifying calendar hash chains.

See Also:

PublicationsFile

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Certificate	findCertificateById(byte[] certificateId) Finds and returns certificate form trust store by certificate ID.
PublicationRecord	getLatestPublication() This method is used to get the newest publication from publications file.
String	getName()
PublicationRecord	getPublicationRecord(Date publicationTime) This method is used to get the "closest" publication after the input time.
List<PublicationRecord>	getPublicationRecords() Returns the list of the publications records in publications file.

Method Detail

findCertificateById

Certificate findCertificateById(byte[] certificateId)
                         throws CertificateNotFoundException

Finds and returns certificate form trust store by certificate ID.

Parameters:

certificateId - certificate id to search for

Returns:

certificate instance of Certificate

Throws:

CertificateNotFoundException - if certificate with given id wasn't found

getPublicationRecord

PublicationRecord getPublicationRecord(Date publicationTime)

This method is used to get the "closest" publication after the input time.

Parameters:

publicationTime - time to be used to find the closest publication

Returns:

instance of PublicationRecord if the closest publication exists. null otherwise.

getPublicationRecords

List<PublicationRecord> getPublicationRecords()

Returns the list of the publications records in publications file. If the publications file doesn't contain publications records then the empty list will be returned.

getLatestPublication

PublicationRecord getLatestPublication()
                                throws KSIException

This method is used to get the newest publication from publications file.

Returns:

returns the newest publications

Throws:

KSIException - when error occurs

getName

String getName()

Returns:

human readable description for this KSI Trust provider