Digital Signature Series
The following blog posts are part of a series I wrote on digital signatures.
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DSig Part 3: XML DSig vs. JSON Web Signature
This post was originally published as “DSig Part 3: XML DSig vs. JSON Web Signtaure” on the Levvel Blog.
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DSig Part 2: JSON Web Signature (JWS)
This post was originally published as “DSig Part 2: JSON Web Signature (JWS)” on the Levvel Blog.
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DSig Part 1: XML Digital Signature and WS-Security Integrity
This post was originally published as “DSig Part 1: XML Digital Signature and WS-Security Integrity” on the Levvel Blog.
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Convert an X509v3 Binary Security Token to PEM Format
This tutorial describes how to convert a Binary Security Token extracted from a SOAP message into a valid PEM format that can be read by openssl or similar tool. If you are ever troubleshooting the use of X509v3 certificates used with WS-Security, this can come in very handy.
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WS-Security Integrity (XML Digital Signature)
This post continues exploring the use of XML Digital Signature; this time we look at WS-Security Integrity (use of XML Digital Signatures with WS-Security). Our examples show a digital signature and a timestamp in a WS-Security <Security> SOAP Header.
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XML Digital Signature (an Example)
In the last post, we looked at the steps involved in generating a digital signature using the XML Digital Signature spec. The algorithm to produce a signature and validate it were explored but no examples were given. In this post, we’ll look at an example that is given in the XML Digital Signature…
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XML Digital Signatures
The XML DSig specification is used to provide digital signature functionality to XML Documents. It is is used by numerous other specs such as WS-Security and SAML2. This blog entry will describe how digital signatures work with an X509 private/public key pair.
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JBoss World 2012 Session–Trusted Security with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
It’s been a few weeks since I have posted any updates. I started a new project at the beginning of June; it always takes a few weeks to get up to speed on an extended project. Integrating the IBM Tivoli Security stack and JBoss EAP was the subject of my JBoss World 2012 presentation.
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DataPower Appliances & HSMs
I’ve been in a couple of shops that have used the HSM module option of DataPower for FIPS 140-2 v2 or v3 compliance. An HSM is a Hardware Security Module. My understanding is that there is a short list of IBM customers that are using this technology. I thought collecting all the information and…
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