[xmlsec] Big patch to xmlsec in recent OpenOffice.org sources

Andrew Fan Xuelei.Fan at Sun.COM
Mon Feb 28 22:32:01 PST 2005


Aleksey,

Thank you very much for upgrading and accepting our path. It is a big 
step to make OpenOffice work well with xml security features.

Aleksey Sanin wrote:

> I checked in the lasts two changes to xmlsec-mscrypto:
>
> - (item 2) keys/providers ref-counting and multithreading
> I did a slightly more generic change and was able to combine
> your patch with the existing code. Now you can either use the
> "native" OS calls for duplicatiing keys/providers handles (>NT 4.0)
> or ref counted keys/providers handles (NT 4.0). I fixed multi
> threading issue with ref counting itself (i.e. I replaced ++/--
> with InterlockedIncrement/InterlockedDecrement) but I still
> have concerns about using *the same* key/provider handler from
> multiple threads. Thus I decided to make default configuration
> *not* to support NT 4.0 (as before). You can enable NT 4.0
> support by either adding "nt4=yes" option for win32/configure.js
> or adding XMLSEC_MSCRYPTO_NT4 define to xmlsec-mscrypto
> compilation flags.
>
Thank you very much. I think it is no problem for openoffice generally.

> - (item 3) xmlSecMSCryptoKeyDataX509VerifyAndExtractKey function
> You was right. For your template, this function gets called
> for signature and we need to return both public and private key
> from it. The fix is checked in.
>
Thanks.

>
>
> I believe all OO.org changes to xmlsec-mscrypto are in CVS trunk.
> All my tests pass as before (seems that I fixed problems with
> your patch while I was re-architecting the ref counting change).
> It would be really great if you can try latest trunk to make sure
> that your stuff work and that no more changes to xmlsec-mscrypto
> is needed. I can create a new xmlsec release later this week if
> you need it. 

I'll give you more feed back about the test.

> Meantime, I'll start looking at xmlsec-nss patch :)
>
Looking forward to working with you on the nss patch.

Thanks & Regards,
Andrew

> Thanks again for your patch!
> Aleksey
>
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