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Web::ID::Certificate(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Web::ID::Certificate(3pm)

NAME

Web::ID::Certificate - an x509 certificate

SYNOPSIS

 my $cert = Web::ID::Certificate->new(pem => $pem_encoded_x509);
 foreach (@{ $cert->subject_alt_names })
 {
   say "SAN: ", $_->type, " = ", $_->value;
 }

DESCRIPTION

Constructor

"new"
Standard Moose-style constructor.

Attributes

"pem"
A PEM-encoded string for the certificate.

This is usually the only attribute you want to pass to the constructor. Allow the others to be built automatically.

"public_key"
A Web::ID::RSAKey object.
"fingerprint"
A string identifier for the certificate. It is the lower-cased hexadecimal SHA1 hash of the DER-encoded certificate.

This is not used in WebID authentication, but may be used as an identifier for the certificate if you need to keep it in a cache.

"not_before"
DateTime object indicating when the certificate started (or will start) to be valid.
"not_after"
DateTime object indicating when the certificate will cease (or has ceased) to be valid.
"subject_alt_names"
An arrayref containing a list of subject alt names (Web::ID::SAN objects) associated with the certificate. These are sorted in the order they'll be tried for WebID authentication.
"san_factory"
A coderef used for building Web::ID::SAN objects. It's very unlikely you need to play with this - the default is probably OK. But changing this is "supported" (in so much as any of this is supported).

The coderef is passed a hash (not hashref) along the lines of:

 (
   type  => 'uniformResourceIdentifier',
   value => 'http://example.com/id/alice',
 )

Methods

"timely"
Checks "not_before" and "not_after" against the current system time to indicate whether the certifixate is temporally valid. Returns a boolean.

You can optionally pass it a DateTime object to use instead of the current system time.

"exponent"
Delegated to the "public_key" attribute.
"modulus"
Delegated to the "public_key" attribute.

BUGS

Please report any bugs to <http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Web-ID>.

SEE ALSO

Web::ID, Web::ID::SAN, Web::ID::RSAKey.

Web::ID::Certificate::Generator - augments this class to add the ability to generate new WebID certificates.

Crypt::X509 provides a pure Perl X.509 certificate parser, and is used internally by this module.

AUTHOR

Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
2014-05-10 perl v5.18.2