com.entrust.toolkit.timestamp

Interface TimeStampTransport

All Known Implementing Classes:

HttpTimeStampTransport

public interface TimeStampTransport

This interface represents a transport for the Time-Stamp protocol as defined in RFC 3161.

An implementation of this interface SHOULD only transmit/receive data; it SHOULD NOT perform any Time-Stamp verification.

Since:

7.0

See Also:

RFC 3161

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
TimeStampResp	requestTimeStamp(TimeStampReq request) Sends/Receives a Time-Stamp request/response with the Time-Stamp Authority.

Method Detail

requestTimeStamp

TimeStampResp requestTimeStamp(TimeStampReq request)
                        throws java.io.IOException

Sends/Receives a Time-Stamp request/response with the Time-Stamp Authority.

Parameters:

request - the Time-Stamp request

Returns:

the Time-Stamp response

Throws:

java.io.IOException - thrown if an error occurred while communicating with the Time-Stamp Authority