Java: how to get ssl session data from ssl certificate?

Question

I have an SSL Certificate that is represented by sun.security.x509.X509CertInfo . It contains different data on Organization, Organization Unit, Domain name and so on. But I need to get Protocol and Cipher data.

SSLSession interface has methods to retrieve this data getProtocol() and getCipherSuite() . Is it possible to retrieve this data (Protocol and Cipher) having only SSL Certificate object?

Answer 1

No, simply because a certificate does not contain that information. It's setup during the protocol negotiation part of SSL, and is mostly independent of the certificate properties.