July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 10m
English
The XMLDSIG standard defines the steps required to produce a Signature element and verify a Signature element. These steps are not very surprising, as the following subsections explain.
Signature generation consists of two parts. First, you need to generate the Reference elements to go into SignedInfo. Second, you need to construct SignedInfo, sign it, and create the Signature element. These steps must occur in that order.
Although the XML Digital Signature standard does not require it, real-world XMLDSIG subroutine libraries will probably include an entry for generating a Manifest element as well as a Signature element. This entry would involve exactly the same Reference element generation ...
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