Class SubjectAlternativeNameExtension

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Serializable

This class provides an implementation of the subject alternative name X.509 certificate extension as described in RFC 5280 section 4.2.1.6. It can provide additional information about the entity that is being certified, including alternate DNS hostnames or IP addresses that may be used to access the server, email addresses or DNs of end users, URIs of services, etc. This information may be used in the course of determining whether to trust a peer certificate.

The OID for this extension is 2.5.29.17. See the GeneralAlternativeNameExtension class for implementation details and the value encoding.
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