Object identifiers

The Toolkit includes the following class to implement the ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER universal type.

iaik.asn1.ObjectID

This class generates object identifiers (OIDs) for objects of the following types.

  • PKCS #7

  • PKCS #9

  • PKCS #12

  • PKIX

  • X.500

You can use these objects in your applications by specifying the name corresponding to the OID. The Javadoc reference documentation for this class lists the OIDs that the Toolkit registers by default. Your application should register additional OIDs by creating new ObjectID instances on initialization only.