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/* ====================================================================
   This product contains an ASLv2 licensed version of the OOXML signer
   package from the eID Applet project
   http://code.google.com/p/eid-applet/source/browse/trunk/README.txt  
   Copyright (C) 2008-2014 FedICT.
   ================================================================= */ 

package org.apache.poi.poifs.crypt.dsig.services;

import org.apache.poi.poifs.crypt.dsig.SignatureConfig.SignatureConfigurable;


/**
 * Interface for a time-stamp service.
 * 
 * @author Frank Cornelis
 * 
 */
public interface TimeStampService extends SignatureConfigurable {

    /**
     * Gives back the encoded time-stamp token for the given array of data
     * bytes. We assume that the time-stamp token itself contains its full
     * certificate chain required for proper validation.
     * 
     * @param data
     *            the data to be time-stamped.
     * @param revocationData
     *            the optional container that needs to be filled up with the
     *            revocation data used to validate the TSA certificate chain.
     * @return the DER encoded time-stamp token.
     * @throws Exception
     *             in case something went wrong.
     */
    byte[] timeStamp(byte[] data, RevocationData revocationData)
            throws Exception;
}