/Shivaram
Davanum Srinivas wrote:
Shiva,
Is there a "free" implementation as well?
thanks, dims
--- Shivaram Mysore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Berin,
I am Shivaram Mysore, Co-Chair of the XKMS working group. At this time, we are working on an interop test suite and a matrix. This working group is a public working group. So the contribution of all the folks interested is most welcome.
Please let us know in what way we can help.
Thanks
/Shivaram
Berin Lautenbach wrote:
Guys,
Don't know if you have been keeping accross it, but XKMS 2.0 is now in candidate recommendation status. The plan is to run interop tests between now and (from memory) October.
I thought it might be interesting to try to get an XKMS service and/or client up and running to have involved in the interop.
So...
I've been playing with XKMS this weekend. I'll be checking some new (C++) code into CVS sometime soon providing a skeleton message factory for reading XKMS messages. I'll flesh this out over the next few weeks to give a reasonably full XKISS implementation of message handling.
I'm also going to put some client code into the library, but my feeling is that a server should be a separate code base. The MessageFactory class will provide the basic message handling, but the server will have to handle the actual server logic. Client code is a bit easier - make the request and return the result - and really should be in the xml-security library.
For the server, my feeling was it needs a couple of components :
1. SOAP listener. This could be a simple process that accepts connections, an apache mod, an AXIS module (once AXIS C++ supports the Message service) or any other module that can get the message and strip the SOAP envelope to pass it to the
2. XKMS server. The process that handles incoming XKMS messages and returns the answer to the SOAP listener. It will need to talk to
3. The key service. This is the service that actually knows about keys. In the simplest form (for interop) it'll just be a connection to a database that holds the keys the service knows about. For more complicated situations, this might be an interface to a commercial PKI.
Between 1 and 2 and between 2 and 3 will be defined interfaces that allow other key services and/or SOAP listeners to be configured around the XKMS server.
Would be interesting to do something similar in Java. And I'd like to work on getting both through the Interop prior to the end of October.
Anyway, very interested in thoughts. In the first instance I just want to create a simple prototype :>.
Cheers, Berin
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