Entrust/Toolkit™
for Java™ — Release 5.0, API Reference
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Description
Entrust/Toolkit™
for Java™ — Release 5.0, API Reference
This document is the API reference for the Entrust/Toolkit™ for
Java™ (referred to as the Toolkit throughout this document) generated
directly from the Toolkit's source code using the Javadoc tool from Sun
Microsystems Inc.
Overview
The Toolkit provides both high-level and low-level APIs that enable a
Java application to perform security related tasks. The Toolkit adheres to the Java Cryptography
Architecture (JCA) and supplements it with numerous cryptographic
algorithms. The design of the Toolkit allows applications to use open
standards, such as the PKCS#7 standard and the SSL protocol, through both its
low-level and high-level API.
High-level tasks performed using the Toolkit:
- Managing user credentials, including those on hardware tokens
- Creating and processing PKCS#7 messages
- Securing network communications using TLS and SSL
- Validating X.509 v3 certificates
- Note
- The Toolkit is not based on the same Entrust/Engine software as the C
and C++ Toolkit products. Instead, the Java Cryptographic Extension (JCE)
Module provides for the selection of the following algorithms: RSA, DSA, SHA1,
MD5, MD2, DES, IDEA, Triple-DES, CAST-128, RC2 and RC4 compatible
algorithms.
Related documentation
A Programmers' Guide, in portable document format (PDF), accompanies the
Toolkit. The Programmers' Guide describes the architecture of the Toolkit API
and provides procedures and sample code to demonstrate the major tasks you
might want to perform.
The Developers' Handbook, found in the Entrust/Toolkit™ Developer Workshop HTML Help documentation, is a
good source of background information on the use of Entrust/Toolkit products
and on the cryptographic standards and algorithms they implement. The Developer
Workshop also contains information about cryptography in general and about the
Entrust Public Key Infrastructure, Entrust/PKI™.
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