[wsf-c-dev] Current status of Rampart/C

[Samisa Abeysinghe]

Should not this discussion be on Apache C dev? At least if not the whole 
(e.g. PHP stuff) the rest should go to Apache list IMHO.

Samisa...

Kaushalye Kapuruge wrote:
> Hi list,
> Following will describe the current status of Rampart/C
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> Recent modifications:
> Recently I've introduced an authentication module, which can be used 
> to authenticate an incoming username token. Rampart will load the 
> authentication module dynamically and plug it to the username token 
> verification process. Just like the way we used the password callback 
> module. But with a little difference.
> Instead of giving just the username to pick the password, we will 
> provide both the username and the password. The module will validate 
> the pair and return a status code. There are two methods to implement 
> by the module writer for both plaintext passwords and the digests.
> Under rampart/samples/authn_provider there is a sample implementation 
> for this.
> The next step is to write a credential module for the message outgoing 
> case. Both these were raised in JIRA - 
> http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2C-261
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> There are few changes in OMXMLSecurity to extract x509 
> certificates/keys from a buffer. This is done specifically to support 
> the PHP extension.
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> Security-Policy integration:
> We are almost at the integration level of security-policy with 
> rampart. The security-policy code will be committed to the svn this week.
>
> XML-Signature and Canonicalization:
> We have planned to locate the C14N implementation under the 
> OMXMLSecurity library. After that we will start the XML-Signature 
> implementation in OMXMLSecurity and then later use it in Rampart/C.
>
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> Cheers,
> Kaushalye
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