Ws Security signature verification

anonymous · July 23, 2018, 9:30am

Hi,

I’m trying to use the library from https://github.com/DinoChiesa/ApigeeEdge-Java-WsSec-Signature to verify incoming request signed with Ws Security signing. I have installed the example-bundle with the importAndDeploy tool.

I keep on getting the “Could not initialize class org.apache.wss4j.dom.engine.WSSConfig” error while performing the /verify use cases, while all jars are installed in the resource folder through the tool.

Any hints on how to resolve this?

Thanks,

Eelco

dchiesa1 · July 23, 2018, 5:16pm

Hi, I wrote that callout jar. Maybe I can help you.

It’s hard to know why you’re experiencing the problem, without further details.

Most often, the problem is the WSS4J configuration cannot be read properly. This could be because the crypto.properties file is not included in the expected location, or because it has incorrect information, or the key is missing. The second common cause of problems is a Java security permissions error.

Some questions to help diagnose.

Did you recompile the callout module?
if so, Did you replace or modify or rename the .jks file? Did you modify the crypto.properties file to be consistent with your changes to the .jks file?
What is the Java Callout policy configuration? Can you show it? If you are specifying the .jks in the Callout, how did you base64 encode the .jks file before embedding it into the policy configuration?
Have you turned on tracing and did you look at the stacktrace that results when you receive the “Could not initialize” error? What does the stacktrace say?

anonymous · July 23, 2018, 5:22pm

Thanks @Dino-at-Google, actually, I just deployed the example-bundle as described in the readme documentation, without any further changes. In that bundle, I don’t see any crypto.properties either.

Can you point me to any documentation how to fill that one?

Thanks,

Eelco

anonymous · July 23, 2018, 5:39pm

While looking further in the Trace, I see the following:

#### Properties
Could not initialize class org.apache.wss4j.dom.engine.WSSConfig
ErrorPoint
PROXY_REQ_FLOW
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError
fault

So it appears the correct jar cannot be loaded?

dchiesa1 · July 23, 2018, 5:52pm

Either the jar containing WSSConfig is missing, or a different jar containing a dependency required by that class.

You need to check the contents of the resources/java directory in your proxy to make sure all the required jars are present there. The list of jars is:

commons-lang3-3.7.jar
edge-wssec-sign-x509-1.0.4.jar
wss4j-bindings-2.2.1.jar
wss4j-ws-security-common-2.2.1.jar
wss4j-ws-security-dom-2.2.1.jar
wss4j-ws-security-stax-2.2.1.jar
xmlsec-2.1.1.jar

Do you have all of those?

anonymous · July 23, 2018, 5:55pm

Yes, they’re all there. They were installed through your importAndDeploy tool from the repo.

dchiesa1 · July 23, 2018, 6:03pm

Can you “git pull” from the repo, and then show your policy configuration please?

anonymous · July 23, 2018, 6:23pm

Yes, one of the policies is below. It is completely untouched from your example-bundle. The error appears on all the different signing and verifying policies by the way.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<JavaCallout name="Java-VerifySignature-BYOJKS">
    <Properties>
        <Property name="alias">my-key-alias</Property>
        <Property name="password">Secret123</Property>
        <Property name="jks-base64">
      /u3+7QAAAAIAAAABAAAAAQAMbXkta2V5LWFsaWFzAAABYbnEZOYAAAUCMIIE/jAO
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    </Property>
    </Properties>
    <ClassName>com.google.apigee.callout.wssec.SOAPVerifier</ClassName>
    <ResourceURL>java://edge-wssec-sign-x509-1.0.4.jar</ResourceURL>
</JavaCallout>

anonymous · July 27, 2018, 12:31pm

@Dino-at-Google: any more hints for this one would be much appreciated.

apininja · July 30, 2018, 8:23am

hi @Dino-at-Google, I just tried to the same. I just downloaded and deployed the example-bundle in a demo org. It shows the same behavior as Eelco explained.

dchiesa1 · July 30, 2018, 4:44pm

I’ve been away. Let me look again.

dchiesa1 · July 30, 2018, 7:17pm

Between the time I posted the original Ws-Security callout and now, something has changed in the MP to prevent the initialization of the WSS4J library within a Java Callout. This is preventing the callout from working correctly. At the moment the runtime error is not “handle-able” or “catchable” by your own Java code.

I don’t have a good suggestion for a solution at this time.

I could suggest using a Hosted Target with nodejs code, but there are no good, proven WS-Sec libraries for nodejs, that I have been able to find. Also , the Hosted Target does not allow the use of non-JavaScript runtimes at the moment, so… no Java, no .NET. Either of those would be able to handle WS-Security, but you cannot use them in a Hosted Target, for now anyway.

I suggest opening a ticket with Apigee Support and requesting

help diagnosing the initialization failure in the Java callout
support for a better extensibility model which would allow you to use Java in Hosted Targets

Sorry I don’t have a better answer !

Update

As of October 2019, There is now a new, different callout that will work for this purpose.

https://github.com/DinoChiesa/ApigeeEdge-Java-WsSec-Signature-2

pauljosh · April 18, 2023, 2:24pm

Hi @dchiesa1 , good day! Many thanks to you’re active support to these query items and thanks to all involved on this post!

I was wondering if the bugs cited for https://github.com/DinoChiesa/ApigeeEdge-Java-WsSec-Signature-2 are updated? I’ve been following community posts related to this thread and looking for a solution that offers verification of an xml digital signature with SHA-256.

Appreciate all the help!

Thank you!

dchiesa1 · July 6, 2023, 12:31am

Hi Pauljosh - I don’t know what you mean by “bugs cited” . I guess you are talking about the discussion in the thread. But what specifically are you asking about? Right now I know of no bugs in the callout that prevent its use for signing and validating.

The callout you cited can sign or validate, using RSA keys. The README states:

Signing or validating with RSA-SHA1 (http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1 ) or RSA-SHA256 (http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256 ). The latter is highly recommended.
using a digest method of sha1 (http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1) or sha256 (http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256) . The latter is highly recommended.

So I think that may cover your case. Let me know if not. (Please open a NEW THREAD)

pauljosh · July 10, 2023, 9:59am

Hi Dchiesa1, good day! I have created another post for my concern item.

Kindly refer to this link: https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/Apigee/Ws-Security-signature-verification-follow-up-question/m-p/610657#M75865

Many thanks!

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