001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2017 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 * limitations under the License.
015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.ksb.security.service;
017
018import java.io.IOException;
019import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
020import java.security.Signature;
021import java.security.cert.Certificate;
022
023/**
024 * A service for aquiring Signatures for signing and verification of messages.
025 *
026 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
027 */
028public interface DigitalSignatureService {
029
030        public Signature getSignatureForSigning() throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException;
031        
032        public Signature getSignatureForVerification(String verificationAlias) throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException;
033        
034    public Signature getSignatureForVerification(Certificate certificate) throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException;
035}