XML Security Library

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XML Security Library

XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. The library supports major XML security standards:

XML Security Library is released under the MIT Licence see the Copyright file in the distribution for details.

News

  • April 20 2017
    The XML Security Library 1.2.24 release includes the following changes:
    • Added ECDSA-SHA1, ECDSA-SHA256, ECDSA-SHA512 support for xmlsec-nss (vmiklos).
    • Fixed XMLSEC_KEYINFO_FLAGS_X509DATA_DONT_VERIFY_CERTS handling (vmiklos).
    • Disabled external entities loading by xmlsec utility app by default to prevent XXE attacks (d-hat).
    • Improved OpenSSL version and features detection.
    • Cleaned up, simplified, and standardized internal error reporting.
    • Fixed a few Coverity-discovered bugs (report).
    • Marked as deprecated all the functions in xmlsec/soap.h file and a couple other functions no longer required by xmlsec. These functions will be removed in the future releases.
    • Several other small fixes (more details).
    Please note that OpenSSL 0.9.8 support will be removed in the next release of XMLSec library.

  • October 16 2016
    The XML Security Library 1.2.23 release includes the following changes:
    • Full support for OpenSSL 1.1.0.
    • Several other small fixes (more details).

  • April 20 2016
    The XML Security Library 1.2.22 release includes the following changes:
    • Restored SOAP parser to support backward compatibility for Lasso project.

  • April 12 2016
    The XML Security Library 1.2.21 release includes the following changes:
    • Added OOXML Relationships Transform Algorithm (patch from Miklos Vajna).
    • Added experimental GOST2012 support for xmlsec-openssl (patch from Nikolay Shaplov).
    • Migrated XMLSec to GitHub.
    • Added OpenSSL 1.1.0 (pre 2) API support (major re-factoring for all OpenSSL based implementations of the block ciphers and the DSA/ECDSA signatures).
    • Removed support for legacy OpenSSL 0.9.6 (last release: March, 2004) and 0.9.7 (last release: February, 2007).
    • Completely revamped manpages/documentation build to completely pass 'make distcheck' tests.
    • Deprecated XMLSEC_CRYPTO define in favor of xmlSecGetDefaultCrypto() function.
    • Implemented several other smaller features; fixed several other minor bugs, code cleanups: (more details).

  • Jan 28 2016
    The XML Security Library was migrated to GitHub. Please use GitHub for accessing source code and reporting issues.