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<h1 class="SECT1"><a name="XMLSEC-NOTES-VERIFY-X509">Verifing document signed with X509 certificates.</a></h1>
<p> If the document is signed with an X509 certificate then the signature
verification consist of two steps:
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<li><p>Creating and verifing X509 certificates chain.
</p></li>
<li><p>Verifing signature itself using key exrtacted from
a certificate verified on previous step.
</p></li>
</ul>
Certificates chain is constructed from certificates in a way that
each certificate in the chain is signed with previous one:
<div class="FIGURE">
<a name="AEN442"></a><p><b>Figure 1. Certificates chain.</b></p>
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">Certificate A (signed with B) <- Certificate B (signed with C) <- ... <- Root Certificate (signed by itself)
</pre>
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At the end of the chain there is a "Root Certificate" which
is signed by itself. There is no way to verify the validity of the
root certificate and application have to "trust" it
(another name for root certificates is "trusted" certificates).
<p> Application can use <a href="xmlsec-app.html#XMLSECCRYPTOAPPKEYSMNGRCERTLOAD">xmlSecCryptoAppKeysMngrCertLoad</a>
function to load both "trusted" and "un-trusted"
certificates. However, the selection of "trusted"
certificates is very sensitive process and this function might be
not implemented for some crypto engines. In this case, the
"trusted" certificates list is loaded during initialization
or specified in crypto engine configuration files.
Check XML Security Library API reference for more details.
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<a name="AEN447"></a><p><b>Example 3. Loading trusted X509 certificate.</b></p>
<pre class="PROGRAMLISTING">/**
* load_trusted_certs:
* @files: the list of filenames.
* @files_size: the number of filenames in #files.
*
* Creates simple keys manager and load trusted certificates from PEM #files.
* The caller is responsible for destroing returned keys manager using
* @xmlSecKeysMngrDestroy.
*
* Returns the pointer to newly created keys manager or NULL if an error
* occurs.
*/
xmlSecKeysMngrPtr
load_trusted_certs(char** files, int files_size) {
xmlSecKeysMngrPtr mngr;
int i;
assert(files);
assert(files_size > 0);
/* create and initialize keys manager, we use a simple list based
* keys manager, implement your own xmlSecKeysStore klass if you need
* something more sophisticated
*/
mngr = xmlSecKeysMngrCreate();
if(mngr == NULL) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error: failed to create keys manager.\n");
return(NULL);
}
if(xmlSecCryptoAppDefaultKeysMngrInit(mngr) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error: failed to initialize keys manager.\n");
xmlSecKeysMngrDestroy(mngr);
return(NULL);
}
for(i = 0; i < files_size; ++i) {
assert(files[i]);
/* load trusted cert */
if(xmlSecCryptoAppKeysMngrCertLoad(mngr, files[i], xmlSecKeyDataFormatPem, xmlSecKeyDataTypeTrusted) < 0) {
fprintf(stderr,"Error: failed to load pem certificate from \"%s\"\n", files[i]);
xmlSecKeysMngrDestroy(mngr);
return(NULL);
}
}
return(mngr);
}
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