Thanks, I see now why it was doing that. I thought I _was_ sending the
certificate in the message.

How do I activate the DirectReference option? It doesn't seem to be mentioned
in the deployment examples.

On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Dittmann, Werner wrote:

> Guy,
>
> to verify a Signature you need the "real" certificate, not
> only the CA certificate. The CA certificte only proves that
> the "real" certifcate is ok. If you want avoid to have the
> real certificate (the one used to sign) in the keystore
> you could use the DirectReference option.
>
> In that case the cretificate is transfered inside the request
> to the server (coded in base64).
>
> Regards,
> Werner
>
> PS. The WSDoAllReceiver conains certificate Path validation.
> This is implemented in a way that us must have all certificates in
> the keystroe, even if you send it via DirectReference. This
> is an open issue we will address in the next time.
>
> Werner
>
> > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Guy Rixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 9. August 2005 13:25
> > An: [email protected]
> > Betreff: Signature-verification problem in WSS4J
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem with WSS4J 1.0.0. I'm trying to use
> > WSDoAllReceiver to sign a
> > message and WSDOAllSender to versify the signature. It works
> > if I give the
> > server a keystore that contains the senders entire
> > certificate chain. It fails
> > if I give the server a keystore containing just the
> > certificate for the
> > sender's CA.
> >
> > Looking in WSSecurityEngine, and truning on the debug log, it
> > seems that the WSS4J library-code is trying to get the CA
> > certificate by first
> > finding the user's personal certificate (by serial number)
> > _in the server's
> > keystore_. It's calling
> >
> >   getAliasForX509Cert(String issuer, BigInteger serialNumber, true)
> >
> > on Merlin. This can't work when the server only has the CA
> > certificate.
> >
> > Maybe I've got it wrongly configured (again). Is there some
> > setting I need to
> > make s.t. the server trusts all certificates from a given CA?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Guy
> >
> > Guy Rixon                                   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Institute of Astronomy                      Tel: +44-1223-337542
> > Madingley Road, Cambridge, UK, CB3 0HA              Fax:
> > +44-1223-337523
> >
>

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