question: public void encode ( OutputStream out ) throws CertificateEncodingException { if ( signedCert == null ) throw new CertificateEncodingException ( "Null certificate to encode" ) ; try { out . write ( signedCert . clone ( ) ) ; } catch ( IOException e ) { throw new CertificateEncodingException ( e . toString ( ) ) ; } }
target:  Appends the certificate to an output stream.