Antwort: Re: [xmlsec] MAC algorithms in XMLsec?

[Aleksey Sanin]

There are couple ways:
    1) put the key into XML file and load it
    2) create xmlSecKey object, set the key using "generate" function
    and add this key to keys manager

Aleksey.

Hans-Juergen.Heinrich at de.gi-de.com wrote:

>OK, so it's possible, thank you.
>
>But how does Alice load the key into the manager?
>Suppose she has the secret key stored somewhere in a
>file or as a byte array (8 bytes for DES, e.g.).
>Does she have to call xmlSecSimpleKeysMngrAddKey and
>provide a keyPtr structure as the 2nd parameter? In this
>case, would she have to construct the keyPtr herself?
>
>Regards,
>Hans-Juergen
>
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>Yes, it is possible. If you know how to exchange symmetric
>(DES, HMAC, AES,...) keys between Alice and Bob then
>you can specify the key using <ds:KeyName> element
>of <ds:KeyInfo>. In particular, in XMLSec case, Alice should
>load the key into keys manager and add <ds:KeyName> node
>when you are signing/encrypting document. Bob simply loads
>this key into keys manager and XMLSec "magically" finds it
>when it decrypts/verifies the message.
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>Aleksey.
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>Hans-Juergen.Heinrich at de.gi-de.com wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I wonder if it's possible to use MAC algorithms (with
>>secret keys) instead of public key algorithms in XMLsec?
>>
>>In the keys.h-file I only see the key types "public", "private"
>>and the generic type "any".
>>Would it be possible to - for example - read a secret key
>>
>>from a file and sign a XML file with this key and TripleDES?
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>>How would that work?
>>
>>Any help appreciated
>>Hans-Juergen Heinrich
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