Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-21 Thread Anders Rundgren
From: "Arshad Noor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 04:40 Subject: Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox Anders Rundgren wrote: > An inherent problem with this suggestion is that it is not > backed by a specification that can be translated into code.

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-20 Thread Arshad Noor
Anders Rundgren wrote: An inherent problem with this suggestion is that it is not backed by a specification that can be translated into code. The point is that the XMLSEC code already exists and conforms to W3C standards (the Java version conforms to two different JSRs).

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-20 Thread Anders Rundgren
bodies have something along those lines on their menu? Anders - Original Message - From: "Arshad Noor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 21:43 Subject: Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox Anders Rundgren wrote: > > A problem with this approach is t

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-19 Thread Arshad Noor
Anders Rundgren wrote: A problem with this approach is that signText generates PKCS #7 signatures which are different (=incompatible) to XML Signatures. signText only offers signing of plain-text. There are many real-world (= implemented) e-gov applications that require more than that, not to

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-18 Thread Anders Rundgren
>If you are going to be using SignText on the client side and wish >to verify the signed text on the server side, you may want to >consider signing the text into an XMLSignature document & using >readily-available XMLSignature libraries (JWSDP, Apache) for the >verification. A problem with this ap

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-16 Thread Arshad Noor
If you are going to be using SignText on the client side and wish to verify the signed text on the server side, you may want to consider signing the text into an XMLSignature document & using readily-available XMLSignature libraries (JWSDP, Apache) for the verification. The advantage of using XML

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-16 Thread Nelson B
Pablo Andrade wrote: > I would like to ask you, if is there a solution out there so you can verifiy > a signature on the server, or it has to be developed from scratch? Pablo, Your original inquire was about a way to Verify in FireFox. That's the subject of the message to which I'm replying. Bu

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-16 Thread Pablo Andrade
Hi Anders, thank you very much for your answer. Glad to read your comments. I would like to ask you, if is there a solution out there so you can verifiy a signature on the server, or it has to be developed from scratch? We have a e-goverment solution, who signs/verify plain text documents at

Re: Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-15 Thread Anders Rundgren
rformed by the requesting server and does (IMHO) not really belong in a browser, although CAPICOM indeed can do this. regards Anders Rundgren - Original Message - From: "Pablo Andrade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.tech.crypto To: Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 1

Sign/Verify text in FireFox

2006-06-15 Thread Pablo Andrade
Hi, i am trying to sign and verify a text using a x509 certificate. I found a Javascript Crypto object that implements a SignText method, but there is no Verify method. Only help found at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript_crypto but lacks of description of Crypto class interface.