OpenSAML user discussion

["Scott Cantor" <>]

> what's the equivalent in the C++ xmltooling library to the Java class
> org.opensaml.xml.security.credential.BasicCredential?

I'm afraid none of the developers on Shibboleth are deeply familiar with
both sets of code, so it's difficult to say.

The most common way of instantiating a local credential in C++ is to create
a CredentialResolver of type="File", though.

There are no other plugins implemented for resolving information into local
credentials, but there is a BasicX509Credential base class that can be used
to directly create credential objects and is used internally by some of the
plugins.

There are also low level helpers in the SecurityHelper class that load keys
and certificates directly from files or URLs. Some of the interfaces are
able to take either Credential or low level xmlsec Key/Certificate
interfaces.

-- Scott