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The Bouncy Castle Java APIs for CMS, PKCS, EAC, TSP, CMP, CRMF, OCSP, and certificate generation. This jar contains APIs for JDK 1.5 and up. The APIs can be used in conjunction with a JCE/JCA provider such as the one provided with the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs.

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package org.bouncycastle.operator;

import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.AlgorithmIdentifier;
import org.bouncycastle.cert.X509CertificateHolder;

/**
 * General interface for providers of ContentVerifier objects.
 */
public interface ContentVerifierProvider
{
    /**
     * Return whether or not this verifier has a certificate associated with it.
     *
     * @return true if there is an associated certificate, false otherwise.
     */
    boolean hasAssociatedCertificate();

    /**
     * Return the associated certificate if there is one.
     *
     * @return a holder containing the associated certificate if there is one, null if there is not.
     */
    X509CertificateHolder getAssociatedCertificate();

    /**
     * Return a ContentVerifier that matches the passed in algorithm identifier,
     *
     * @param verifierAlgorithmIdentifier the algorithm and parameters required.
     * @return a matching ContentVerifier
     * @throws OperatorCreationException if the required ContentVerifier cannot be created.
     */
    ContentVerifier get(AlgorithmIdentifier verifierAlgorithmIdentifier)
        throws OperatorCreationException;
}