Sounds good! any volunteers :)

-- dims

On 8/14/06, David Del Vecchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This does seem like it would be useful functionality. Perhaps we can add
path validation support, but make it configurable with a switch so that
applications that need it can take advantage of it, but those that don't
(or need custom processing) are unaffected.

David

On Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:48:33 -0500
  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

 >    Wow, that is very suprising. Admittedly I am a security novice,
but > I assumed verifying tbe root CA would be basic included, if not
 > required, functionality. Thanks for the heads up anyway.
 >
 >    -----Original Message-----
 >    From: Werner Dittmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:
 > Saturday, August 12, 2006 1:41 AM
 >    To: Hansen, Rick (TLR Corp)
 >    Cc: [email protected]
 >    Subject: Re: How to verify root certificate?
 >
 >    Richard,
 >    that's correct. WSS4J does not perform the certificate
 > verification. The WSS4J Axis handlers have some code that perform a
 > basic certificate path verification. This was done because certificate
 > path verification is sometime not necessary for basic security
 > (encryption). WSS4J returns
 > the certificate used for signature verification to the calling
 > application (WSSecurityEngine does this).
 >
 >    Regards,
 >    Werner
 >
 >    [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 >
 >        I've searched quite a bit but have found nothing on how to get
 > WSS4J to verify the root X509 certificate. Can anyone tell me how or
 > point me to an example?
 >
 >        I am using WSS4J programatically (not under Axis) to sign and
 > verify SOAP messages. Using the WSSecSignature and WSSecurityEngine
 > classes I
 >
 >
 >        have gotten thing things working well except that the root
 > certificate
 >
 >
 >        is not verified. I have been using a self-signed cert for
 > testing and passing the cert in the BinarySecurityToken. Any
 > certificate seems to be trusted, in fact I can even use an empty
 > keystore on the server.
 >
 >        Rick Hansen
 >
 >
 >
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