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8 This package provides all the classes and all the interfaces needed to generate, administer and verify
10 Functionality for parsing certificate, extracting information from them, validating and
11 verifying the information they contains are provided.
12 Exception are generated mainly for three reasons:<br>
13 - if the certificate's encoding is broken
14 (CertificateEncodingException)<br>
15 - if the certificate's time stamp is not valid
16 (CertificateExpiredException)<br>
17 - or if the validation's path is false (CertPathValidatorException).
19 The functionality to check the different entries and extension fields of X.509 certificates are also provided.