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+/**
+ * <copyright> Copyright (c) 2006 by Know-Center, Graz, Austria </copyright>
+ * 
+ * This software is the confidential and proprietary information of Know-Center,
+ * Graz, Austria. You shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall
+ * use it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement you entered
+ * into with Know-Center.
+ * 
+ * KNOW-CENTER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF
+ * THE SOFTWARE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
+ * NON-INFRINGEMENT. KNOW-CENTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY
+ * LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS
+ * DERIVATIVES.
+ * 
+ * $Id: SignatureHolder.java,v 1.3 2006/10/11 07:57:58 wprinz Exp $
+ */
+package at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.pdf;
+
+import at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.sig.SignatureObject;
+
+/**
+ * Data structure that holds the information of one signature block, which is
+ * the signed/signable text and the corresponding SignatureObject.
+ * 
+ * <p>
+ * Signators and Verifiactors should implement own classes for this interface
+ * that generate the text to be signed from the underlying data. For example a
+ * binary signature holder could generate the text to be signed by Base64
+ * encoding the binary data. Furthermore this allows to cache the text to be
+ * signed.
+ * </p>
+ * 
+ * @author wprinz
+ */
+public interface SignatureHolder
+{
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the signed text (verification) or the to-be-signed signable text
+   * (signation).
+   * 
+   * <p>
+   * Note that this text must be the one that was actually signed. This text is
+   * directly passed to the connector for signation/verification. No
+   * normalization or modification will be / must be done to this text between
+   * reading out from the signature holder and passing the text to the
+   * connector.
+   * </p>
+   * 
+   * @return Returns the signed text or the to-be-signed signable text.
+   */
+  public String getSignedText();
+
+  /**
+   * 
+   * @return Returns the SignatureObject containing the issuer, serial number,
+   *         etc.
+   */
+  public SignatureObject getSignatureObject();
+
+}
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