Hi,

Can you create a JIRA and submit a patch for this? Preferably with a
test-case :-)
One problem with your suggested solution is that BouncyCastle is a
strictly optional dependency...see how CryptoBase.java handles this.

Colm.

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:44 AM,  <bigg...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>  A valid CA certificate in my keystore throws an exception since the wss4j
> code is not properly parsing a valid certificate
>
> Merlin.java
>   validateCertPath
>
> does:
>     public boolean validateCertPath(X509Certificate[] certs) throws
> WSSecurityException {
>   ...
>             // Add certificates from the keystore
>             Enumeration aliases = this.keystore.aliases();
>             while (aliases.hasMoreElements()) {
>                 String alias = (String) aliases.nextElement();
>                 X509Certificate cert =
>                     (X509Certificate) this.keystore.getCertificate(alias);
>                 TrustAnchor anchor =
>                     new TrustAnchor(cert,
> cert.getExtensionValue(NAME_CONSTRAINTS_OID));
>                 set.add(anchor);
>             }
>   ...
>
> The issue is that cert.getExtensionValue bytes must be parsed prior to
> sending to TrustAnchor since it is valid to have the name constraints
> wrapped as an OCTET_STRING
>
> So the code should look like this:
>
> byte[] ba = cert.getExtensionValue(NAME_CONSTRAINTS_OID);
> if (ba != null && ba[0] == 0x04) // if ba is wrapped
>   ba =
> ((org.bouncycastle.asn1.ANS1OctetString)org.bouncycastle.asn1.ASN1Object.fromByteArray(ba)).getOctets();
> TrustAnchor anchor = new TrustAnchor(cert, ba);
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