X509NameTokenizer.java contains Bouncy Castle JCE copyright code
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Key: WSS-107
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WSS-107
Project: WSS4J
Issue Type: Improvement
Environment: N/A
Reporter: George Stanchev
Assignee: Ruchith Udayanga Fernando
The Eclipse Foundation IP review rejected wss4j 1.5.latest for approval 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
comitter of and makes things complicated for our users.
Besides all that, the X509Tokenizer included in wss4j is very simple and
rudimentary 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).
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