[xmlsec] Signature in different namespace

Aleksey Sanin aleksey at aleksey.com
Mon Oct 15 13:00:34 PDT 2012


I don't see example but "ds:SignatureType" defines Signature node in
the DS namespace.

Aleksey

On 10/15/12 12:56 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Hi.  I want to implement support for signing/verifying PSKC data (RFC
> 6030) which uses xmldsig.  The XML schema is here:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6030#section-11
> 
> In particular it refer to xmldsig like this:
> 
>                <xs:element name="Signature"
>                     type="ds:SignatureType" minOccurs="0"/>
> 
> As far as I can tell (and this is reinforced by the example in section 7
> of RFC 6030), this means the XML will have a Signature element in the
> PSKC namespace but with children from the xmldsig namespace.  For
> example:
> 
>    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>    <KeyContainer
>        xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:keyprov:pskc"
>        xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
>        xmlns:xenc="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#"
>        Version="1.0">
>        <KeyPackage>
> ...
>        </KeyPackage>
>        <Signature>
>            <ds:SignedInfo>
>                <ds:CanonicalizationMethod
> ...
> 
> I'm having trouble making XMLSec cope with this.  xmlSecDSigCtxSign
> calls xmlSecDSigCtxProcessSignatureNode which starts with:
> 
>     if(!xmlSecCheckNodeName(node, xmlSecNodeSignature, xmlSecDSigNs)) {
>         xmlSecError(XMLSEC_ERRORS_HERE,
> 
> So I get a hard error when trying to sign with a Signature node that
> isn't in the xmldsig namespace.  Any ideas on what could be done here?
> 
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> 
> Thanks,
> /Simon
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