Hi,
Thanks for all your responses -- that was really helpful! The XSec library is just what I need. I also found a very useful article on XML signatures:
Thanks again,
Monica
Matthias Niggemeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
Xerces itself has no support for signatures.
Have a look at http://xml.apache.org/security/
thats the lib you need.
Regards
Matthias
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monica Lau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: XML Signature Questions
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a newbie on XML signatures. I've been reading up on it,
> and I have two questions below that I hope Xerces/XML folks
> can help me out with:
>
> (1) In the DOM creation, does Xerces support creating the
>element? Is there special API to create this
> element or is this treated as regular element creations using
> the standard "createElement()" API?
>
> (2) This is probably a stupid question, but I really need to
> ask: Do we invoke the signature generation algorithms
> manually (ie, DSA, SHA-1, etc.) to generate the signature or
> does Xerces automatically invoke these algorithms in the DOM
> creation? I don't believe Xerces or any other XML parser
> automatically invoke the algorithms to generate the
> signatures, right? The <... Algorithm> elements (ie,
>) are essentially used to
> tell the recipient what algorithms were used to generate the
> signature (hence, describing the data).
>
> Thanks for your help in advance! Much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Monica
>
>
>
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