[xmlsec] Signing Second time with DSA key

Andrew King aking at pingidentity.com
Wed Dec 9 10:39:22 PST 2020


Just out of curiosity... WRT SAML, why would you sign both the Assertion
and the Response?

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Andy King
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On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 11:24 AM Timothy Legge <timlegge at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...  I should have noticed that I am dealing with Perl's XML::libXML
> where I can register the namespace and use the shortcut .
>
> Thanks for pointing out the error
>
> Tim
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 1:06 PM Aleksey Sanin <aleksey at aleksey.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --id-attr[:<attr-name>] [<node-namespace-uri>:]<node-name>
> >
> > samlp is not the namespace uri
> >
> > Aleksey
> >
> > On 12/8/20 5:38 PM, Timothy Legge wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have https://pastebin.com/v0PJwQri that I signed as follows:
> > >
> > > xmlsec1 --sign --privkey-pem t/dsa.private.key --id-attr:ID
> > > "Assertion" t/unsigned/xml-sig-unsigned-dsa-multiple-1.xml >
> > > t/unsigned/xml-sig-unsigned-dsa-multiple-2.xml
> > >
> > > which resulted in
> > >
> > > https://pastebin.com/8qhDhjU9
> (t/unsigned/xml-sig-unsigned-dsa-multiple-2.xml)
> > >
> > > I added the second signature section to make
> > > t/unsigned/xml-sig-unsigned-dsa-multiple-3.xml
> > >
> > > https://pastebin.com/rmfuUtvB
> > >
> > > The goal is to sign the saml:Response with ID="identifier_1" (which
> > > has the first signature embedded in the saml:Assertion with
> > > ID="identifier_2)
> > >
> > > I have tried multiple options:
> > >
> > > Most of which result in: the following that seems to be looking at
> > > identifier_2 for some reason (it was already signed above)
> > >
> > > xmlsec1 --sign --privkey-pem t/dsa.private.key --id-attr:ID "Response"
> > > t/unsigned/xml-sig-unsigned-dsa-multiple-3.xml
> > >
> > > xmlsec1 --sign --privkey-pem t/dsa.private.key --id-attr:ID
> > > samlp:Response --node-xpath "/samlp:Response[@ID='identifier_1']"
> > > t/unsigned/xml-sig-unsigned-dsa-multiple-3.xml
> > >
> > >
> > >
> func=xmlSecXPathDataExecute:file=xpath.c:line=246:obj=unknown:subj=xmlXPtrEval:error=5:libxml2
> > > library function failed:expr=xpointer(id('identifier_2')); xml error:
> > > 0: NULL
> > >
> func=xmlSecXPathDataListExecute:file=xpath.c:line=330:obj=unknown:subj=xmlSecXPathDataExecute:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecTransformXPathExecute:file=xpath.c:line=430:obj=xpointer:subj=xmlSecXPathDataListExecute:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecTransformDefaultPushXml:file=transforms.c:line=2108:obj=xpointer:subj=xmlSecTransformExecute:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecTransformCtxXmlExecute:file=transforms.c:line=1044:obj=xpointer:subj=xmlSecTransformPushXml:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecTransformCtxExecute:file=transforms.c:line=1092:obj=unknown:subj=xmlSecTransformCtxXmlExecute:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecDSigReferenceCtxProcessNode:file=xmldsig.c:line=1408:obj=unknown:subj=xmlSecTransformCtxExecute:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecDSigCtxProcessReferences:file=xmldsig.c:line=752:obj=Reference:subj=xmlSecDSigReferenceCtxProcessNode:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecDSigCtxProcessSignatureNode:file=xmldsig.c:line=517:obj=unknown:subj=xmlSecDSigCtxProcessReferences:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > >
> func=xmlSecDSigCtxSign:file=xmldsig.c:line=291:obj=unknown:subj=xmlSecDSigCtxProcessSignatureNode:error=1:xmlsec
> > > library function failed:
> > > Error: signature failed
> > > Error: failed to sign file
> "t/unsigned/xml-sig-unsigned-dsa-multiple-3.xml"
> > >
> > > I am sure it is something obvious.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Tim
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