Hi, Since you're starting to talk about cutting a new release, I decided to throw this isssue in. I already raised this problem in an earlier email.The Eclipse Foundation IP review rejected wss4j 1.5.latest for aproval in its projects because of this file (found under src\org\apache\ws\security\components\crypto) contains a comment:
/* * This source is a plain copy from bouncycastle software. * Thus: * Copyright (c) 2000 The Legion Of The Bouncy Castle (http://www.bouncycastle.org) */ Apparently there are some legal issues with BC - they are being sued somewhere in Europe for inclusion of a patented algorithm and Eclipse Legal wants to stay away from anything BC. They noted the ripoff code comment and alarms started ringing. However that stops us of including WSS4J in an Eclipse project I am commiter of and makes things complicated for our users. Besides all that, the X509Tokenizer included in wss4j is very simple and rudamentary and doesn't conform to RFC2253. In fact in X509 certs with more complex DNs it would give incorrect results. So in light of all this, and with the fact that Apache XML-Security 1.4.x already has a nice RFC2253 parser, can we replace the file in question with the version assigned to this email? It uses the XML-Security DN parser and just creates a wrapper with same WSS4J interface already implemented and consumed now. I copied 2 utility functions (trim() and countQuotes() from there locally and based the constructor on the RFC2253Parser normalize() method (same logic). Instead of lazily evaluating the DN, I construct an ArrayList with to hold the tokenized OIDs). If a WSS4J commiter can take a look at it and people think its OK, I will open a JIRA and attach the file to it. Please let me know, and if we can fix this issue, it would be really nice. Thanks in advance, George Stanchev ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. **********************************************************************
X509NameTokenizer.java
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