OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Does the thing you're trying to sign have an ID?  It doesn't look like it.

Dimuthu Leelarathne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. But now I am facing the below problem[1].
>
> I followed the documentation and tried both with
> CanonicalizationMethod.INCLUSIVE and EXCLUSIVE. The algorithm is
> XMLSignature.ALGO_ID_SIGNATURE_RSA
>
> My X509Credential implementation successfully retrieves the private key.
> But the xmlsec libraries throw the following exception[1]
>
> Your help is much appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Dimuthu
>
>
>
> [1]
> 18:08:01.483 [main] ERROR org.opensaml.xml.signature.Signer - An error
> occured computing the digital signature
> org.apache.xml.security.signature.XMLSignatureException: Cannot resolve
> element with ID null
>         at org.apache.xml.security.signature.XMLSignature.sign(Unknown Source)
>         at org.opensaml.xml.signature.Signer.signObject(Signer.java:76)
>         at org.opensaml.xml.signature.Signer.signObjects(Signer.java:57)
>         at org.wso2.practice.HelloWorld.main(HelloWorld.java:87)
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:08 +0100, Chad La Joie wrote:
> > You could check out the mailing list archives, which has seen a lot of 
> > discussion about this topic over the last couple weeks, or you can start 
> > at the Java documentation.  It appears you were looking at the C++ docs 
> > which isn't going to be very helpful when using the Java library.
> >
> > Dimuthu Leelarathne wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I am new to OpenSAML2.0 library. I managed to build the library along
> > > with java-openws and java-xmltooling. I also created a SAML Assertion
> > > using it. Now I want to sign it.
> > >
> > > But I cannot find documentation on Signing the SAML Assertion except
> > > this[1]. I will be really thankful, if you can give a pointer to sample
> > > code or more documentation.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dimuthu
> > >
> > > [1]https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/SHIB/OSTwoUserManCPPDSIG

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