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;