OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

Whitespace breaks signatures.  It's not a bug of the library.  Also, 
OpenSAML 1.1 is dead and no longer supported.


 wrote:
> I am using openSAML1.1 for generating SAML 1.0 assertions and signing
> it. I realised that openSAML1.1 by default uses
> http://www.w3.org/2001/10/xml-exc-c14n# algorithm for canonicalization.
> Since XML canonicalization is used, inserted a space between two
> elements in a signed assertion and with this signature validation
> started failing. Why is the signature validation failing ?? According to
> my undersatnding a space between two XML elements shouldn't have
> contributed to the digest value when canonicalization is used. If this
> is a known issue, is it fixed in opensaml 2.X ??
>
> Thanks,
> Bharath

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