XML Security Sign

Since Camel 2.12

Only producer is supported

With this Apache Camel component, you can generate and validate XML signatures as described in the W3C standard XML Signature Syntax and Processing or as described in the successor version 1.1. For XML Encryption support, please refer to the XML Security Data Format.

You can find an introduction to XML signature here. The implementation of the component is based on JSR 105, the Java API corresponding to the W3C standard and supports the Apache Santuario and the JDK provider for JSR 105. The implementation will first try to use the Apache Santuario provider; if it does not find the Santuario provider, it will use the JDK provider. Further, the implementation is DOM based.

We also provide support for XAdES-BES/EPES for the signer endpoint; see subsection "XAdES-BES/EPES for the Signer Endpoint".

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their pom.xml for this component:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    <artifactId>camel-xmlsecurity</artifactId>
    <version>x.x.x</version>
    <!-- use the same version as your Camel core version -->
</dependency>

Configuring Options

Camel components are configured on two separate levels:

  • component level

  • endpoint level

Configuring Component Options

The component level is the highest level which holds general and common configurations that are inherited by the endpoints. For example a component may have security settings, credentials for authentication, urls for network connection and so forth.

Some components only have a few options, and others may have many. Because components typically have pre configured defaults that are commonly used, then you may often only need to configure a few options on a component; or none at all.

Configuring components can be done with the Component DSL, in a configuration file (application.properties|yaml), or directly with Java code.

Configuring Endpoint Options

Where you find yourself configuring the most is on endpoints, as endpoints often have many options, which allows you to configure what you need the endpoint to do. The options are also categorized into whether the endpoint is used as consumer (from) or as a producer (to), or used for both.

Configuring endpoints is most often done directly in the endpoint URI as path and query parameters. You can also use the Endpoint DSL and DataFormat DSL as a type safe way of configuring endpoints and data formats in Java.

A good practice when configuring options is to use Property Placeholders, which allows to not hardcode urls, port numbers, sensitive information, and other settings. In other words placeholders allows to externalize the configuration from your code, and gives more flexibility and reuse.

The following two sections lists all the options, firstly for the component followed by the endpoint.

Component Options

The XML Security Sign component supports 29 options, which are listed below.

Name Description Default Type

addKeyInfoReference (producer)

In order to protect the KeyInfo element from tampering you can add a reference to the signed info element so that it is protected via the signature value. The default value is true. Only relevant when a KeyInfo is returned by KeyAccessor. and KeyInfo#getId() is not null.

true

Boolean

baseUri (producer)

You can set a base URI which is used in the URI dereferencing. Relative URIs are then concatenated with the base URI.

String

canonicalizationMethod (producer)

Canonicalization method used to canonicalize the SignedInfo element before the digest is calculated. You can use the helper methods XmlSignatureHelper.getCanonicalizationMethod(String algorithm) or getCanonicalizationMethod(String algorithm, List inclusiveNamespacePrefixes) to create a canonicalization method.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315

AlgorithmMethod

clearHeaders (producer)

Determines if the XML signature specific headers be cleared after signing and verification. Defaults to true.

true

Boolean

contentObjectId (producer)

Sets the content object Id attribute value. By default a UUID is generated. If you set the null value, then a new UUID will be generated. Only used in the enveloping case.

String

contentReferenceType (producer)

Type of the content reference. The default value is null. This value can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_CONTENT_REFERENCE_TYPE.

String

contentReferenceUri (producer)

Reference URI for the content to be signed. Only used in the enveloped case. If the reference URI contains an ID attribute value, then the resource schema URI ( setSchemaResourceUri(String)) must also be set because the schema validator will then find out which attributes are ID attributes. Will be ignored in the enveloping or detached case.

String

cryptoContextProperties (producer)

Sets the crypto context properties. See \{link XMLCryptoContext#setProperty(String, Object)}. Possible properties are defined in XMLSignContext an XMLValidateContext (see Supported Properties). The following properties are set by default to the value Boolean#TRUE for the XML validation. If you want to switch these features off you must set the property value to Boolean#FALSE. org.jcp.xml.dsig.validateManifests javax.xml.crypto.dsig.cacheReference.

Map

digestAlgorithm (producer)

Digest algorithm URI. Optional parameter. This digest algorithm is used for calculating the digest of the input message. If this digest algorithm is not specified then the digest algorithm is calculated from the signature algorithm. Example: http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256.

String

disallowDoctypeDecl (producer)

Disallows that the incoming XML document contains DTD DOCTYPE declaration. The default value is Boolean#TRUE.

true

Boolean

keyAccessor (producer)

For the signing process, a private key is necessary. You specify a key accessor bean which provides this private key. The key accessor bean must implement the KeyAccessor interface. The package org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api contains the default implementation class DefaultKeyAccessor which reads the private key from a Java keystore.

KeyAccessor

lazyStartProducer (producer)

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

omitXmlDeclaration (producer)

Indicator whether the XML declaration in the outgoing message body should be omitted. Default value is false. Can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_OMIT_XML_DECLARATION.

false

Boolean

outputXmlEncoding (producer)

The character encoding of the resulting signed XML document. If null then the encoding of the original XML document is used.

String

parentLocalName (producer)

Local name of the parent element to which the XML signature element will be added. Only relevant for enveloped XML signature. Alternatively you can also use setParentXpath(XPathFilterParameterSpec). Default value is null. The value must be null for enveloping and detached XML signature. This parameter or the parameter setParentXpath(XPathFilterParameterSpec) for enveloped signature and the parameter setXpathsToIdAttributes(List) for detached signature must not be set in the same configuration. If the parameters parentXpath and parentLocalName are specified in the same configuration then an exception is thrown.

String

parentNamespace (producer)

Namespace of the parent element to which the XML signature element will be added.

String

parentXpath (producer)

Sets the XPath to find the parent node in the enveloped case. Either you specify the parent node via this method or the local name and namespace of the parent with the methods setParentLocalName(String) and setParentNamespace(String). Default value is null. The value must be null for enveloping and detached XML signature. If the parameters parentXpath and parentLocalName are specified in the same configuration then an exception is thrown.

XPathFilterParameterSpec

plainText (producer)

Indicator whether the message body contains plain text. The default value is false, indicating that the message body contains XML. The value can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_MESSAGE_IS_PLAIN_TEXT.

false

Boolean

plainTextEncoding (producer)

Encoding of the plain text. Only relevant if the message body is plain text (see parameter plainText. Default value is UTF-8.

UTF-8

String

prefixForXmlSignatureNamespace (producer)

Namespace prefix for the XML signature namespace http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#. Default value is ds. If null or an empty value is set then no prefix is used for the XML signature namespace. See best practice http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-bestpractices/#signing-xml- without-namespaces.

ds

String

properties (producer)

For adding additional References and Objects to the XML signature which contain additional properties, you can provide a bean which implements the XmlSignatureProperties interface.

XmlSignatureProperties

schemaResourceUri (producer)

Classpath to the XML Schema. Must be specified in the detached XML Signature case for determining the ID attributes, might be set in the enveloped and enveloping case. If set, then the XML document is validated with the specified XML schema. The schema resource URI can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_SCHEMA_RESOURCE_URI.

String

signatureAlgorithm (producer)

Signature algorithm. Default value is http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1.

http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256

String

signatureId (producer)

Sets the signature Id. If this parameter is not set (null value) then a unique ID is generated for the signature ID (default). If this parameter is set to (empty string) then no Id attribute is created in the signature element.

String

transformMethods (producer)

Transforms which are executed on the message body before the digest is calculated. By default, C14n is added and in the case of enveloped signature (see option parentLocalName) also http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature is added at position 0 of the list. Use methods in XmlSignatureHelper to create the transform methods.

List

xpathsToIdAttributes (producer)

Define the elements which are signed in the detached case via XPATH expressions to ID attributes (attributes of type ID). For each element found via the XPATH expression a detached signature is created whose reference URI contains the corresponding attribute value (preceded by '#'). The signature becomes the last sibling of the signed element. Elements with deeper hierarchy level are signed first. You can also set the XPATH list dynamically via the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_XPATHS_TO_ID_ATTRIBUTES. The parameter setParentLocalName(String) or setParentXpath(XPathFilterParameterSpec) for enveloped signature and this parameter for detached signature must not be set in the same configuration.

List

autowiredEnabled (advanced)

Whether autowiring is enabled. This is used for automatic autowiring options (the option must be marked as autowired) by looking up in the registry to find if there is a single instance of matching type, which then gets configured on the component. This can be used for automatic configuring JDBC data sources, JMS connection factories, AWS Clients, etc.

true

boolean

signerConfiguration (advanced)

To use a shared XmlSignerConfiguration configuration to use as base for configuring endpoints.

XmlSignerConfiguration

uriDereferencer (advanced)

If you want to restrict the remote access via reference URIs, you can set an own dereferencer. Optional parameter. If not set the provider default dereferencer is used which can resolve URI fragments, HTTP, file and XPpointer URIs. Attention: The implementation is provider dependent!.

URIDereferencer

Endpoint Options

The XML Security Sign endpoint is configured using URI syntax:

xmlsecurity-sign:name

with the following path and query parameters:

Path Parameters (1 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

name (producer)

Required The name part in the URI can be chosen by the user to distinguish between different signer endpoints within the camel context.

String

Query Parameters (27 parameters)

Name Description Default Type

addKeyInfoReference (producer)

In order to protect the KeyInfo element from tampering you can add a reference to the signed info element so that it is protected via the signature value. The default value is true. Only relevant when a KeyInfo is returned by KeyAccessor. and KeyInfo#getId() is not null.

true

Boolean

baseUri (producer)

You can set a base URI which is used in the URI dereferencing. Relative URIs are then concatenated with the base URI.

String

canonicalizationMethod (producer)

Canonicalization method used to canonicalize the SignedInfo element before the digest is calculated. You can use the helper methods XmlSignatureHelper.getCanonicalizationMethod(String algorithm) or getCanonicalizationMethod(String algorithm, List inclusiveNamespacePrefixes) to create a canonicalization method.

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315

AlgorithmMethod

clearHeaders (producer)

Determines if the XML signature specific headers be cleared after signing and verification. Defaults to true.

true

Boolean

contentObjectId (producer)

Sets the content object Id attribute value. By default a UUID is generated. If you set the null value, then a new UUID will be generated. Only used in the enveloping case.

String

contentReferenceType (producer)

Type of the content reference. The default value is null. This value can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_CONTENT_REFERENCE_TYPE.

String

contentReferenceUri (producer)

Reference URI for the content to be signed. Only used in the enveloped case. If the reference URI contains an ID attribute value, then the resource schema URI ( setSchemaResourceUri(String)) must also be set because the schema validator will then find out which attributes are ID attributes. Will be ignored in the enveloping or detached case.

String

cryptoContextProperties (producer)

Sets the crypto context properties. See \{link XMLCryptoContext#setProperty(String, Object)}. Possible properties are defined in XMLSignContext an XMLValidateContext (see Supported Properties). The following properties are set by default to the value Boolean#TRUE for the XML validation. If you want to switch these features off you must set the property value to Boolean#FALSE. org.jcp.xml.dsig.validateManifests javax.xml.crypto.dsig.cacheReference.

Map

digestAlgorithm (producer)

Digest algorithm URI. Optional parameter. This digest algorithm is used for calculating the digest of the input message. If this digest algorithm is not specified then the digest algorithm is calculated from the signature algorithm. Example: http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256.

String

disallowDoctypeDecl (producer)

Disallows that the incoming XML document contains DTD DOCTYPE declaration. The default value is Boolean#TRUE.

true

Boolean

keyAccessor (producer)

For the signing process, a private key is necessary. You specify a key accessor bean which provides this private key. The key accessor bean must implement the KeyAccessor interface. The package org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api contains the default implementation class DefaultKeyAccessor which reads the private key from a Java keystore.

KeyAccessor

omitXmlDeclaration (producer)

Indicator whether the XML declaration in the outgoing message body should be omitted. Default value is false. Can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_OMIT_XML_DECLARATION.

false

Boolean

outputXmlEncoding (producer)

The character encoding of the resulting signed XML document. If null then the encoding of the original XML document is used.

String

parentLocalName (producer)

Local name of the parent element to which the XML signature element will be added. Only relevant for enveloped XML signature. Alternatively you can also use setParentXpath(XPathFilterParameterSpec). Default value is null. The value must be null for enveloping and detached XML signature. This parameter or the parameter setParentXpath(XPathFilterParameterSpec) for enveloped signature and the parameter setXpathsToIdAttributes(List) for detached signature must not be set in the same configuration. If the parameters parentXpath and parentLocalName are specified in the same configuration then an exception is thrown.

String

parentNamespace (producer)

Namespace of the parent element to which the XML signature element will be added.

String

parentXpath (producer)

Sets the XPath to find the parent node in the enveloped case. Either you specify the parent node via this method or the local name and namespace of the parent with the methods setParentLocalName(String) and setParentNamespace(String). Default value is null. The value must be null for enveloping and detached XML signature. If the parameters parentXpath and parentLocalName are specified in the same configuration then an exception is thrown.

XPathFilterParameterSpec

plainText (producer)

Indicator whether the message body contains plain text. The default value is false, indicating that the message body contains XML. The value can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_MESSAGE_IS_PLAIN_TEXT.

false

Boolean

plainTextEncoding (producer)

Encoding of the plain text. Only relevant if the message body is plain text (see parameter plainText. Default value is UTF-8.

UTF-8

String

prefixForXmlSignatureNamespace (producer)

Namespace prefix for the XML signature namespace http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#. Default value is ds. If null or an empty value is set then no prefix is used for the XML signature namespace. See best practice http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-bestpractices/#signing-xml- without-namespaces.

ds

String

properties (producer)

For adding additional References and Objects to the XML signature which contain additional properties, you can provide a bean which implements the XmlSignatureProperties interface.

XmlSignatureProperties

schemaResourceUri (producer)

Classpath to the XML Schema. Must be specified in the detached XML Signature case for determining the ID attributes, might be set in the enveloped and enveloping case. If set, then the XML document is validated with the specified XML schema. The schema resource URI can be overwritten by the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_SCHEMA_RESOURCE_URI.

String

signatureAlgorithm (producer)

Signature algorithm. Default value is http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1.

http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#rsa-sha256

String

signatureId (producer)

Sets the signature Id. If this parameter is not set (null value) then a unique ID is generated for the signature ID (default). If this parameter is set to (empty string) then no Id attribute is created in the signature element.

String

transformMethods (producer)

Transforms which are executed on the message body before the digest is calculated. By default, C14n is added and in the case of enveloped signature (see option parentLocalName) also http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature is added at position 0 of the list. Use methods in XmlSignatureHelper to create the transform methods.

List

xpathsToIdAttributes (producer)

Define the elements which are signed in the detached case via XPATH expressions to ID attributes (attributes of type ID). For each element found via the XPATH expression a detached signature is created whose reference URI contains the corresponding attribute value (preceded by '#'). The signature becomes the last sibling of the signed element. Elements with deeper hierarchy level are signed first. You can also set the XPATH list dynamically via the header XmlSignatureConstants#HEADER_XPATHS_TO_ID_ATTRIBUTES. The parameter setParentLocalName(String) or setParentXpath(XPathFilterParameterSpec) for enveloped signature and this parameter for detached signature must not be set in the same configuration.

List

lazyStartProducer (producer (advanced))

Whether the producer should be started lazy (on the first message). By starting lazy you can use this to allow CamelContext and routes to startup in situations where a producer may otherwise fail during starting and cause the route to fail being started. By deferring this startup to be lazy then the startup failure can be handled during routing messages via Camel’s routing error handlers. Beware that when the first message is processed then creating and starting the producer may take a little time and prolong the total processing time of the processing.

false

boolean

uriDereferencer (advanced)

If you want to restrict the remote access via reference URIs, you can set an own dereferencer. Optional parameter. If not set the provider default dereferencer is used which can resolve URI fragments, HTTP, file and XPpointer URIs. Attention: The implementation is provider dependent!.

URIDereferencer

Message Headers

The XML Security Sign component supports 15 message header(s), which is/are listed below:

Name Description Default Type

CamelXmlSignatureMessageIsPlainText (producer)

Constant: HEADER_MESSAGE_IS_PLAIN_TEXT

Header for indicating that the message body contains non-xml plain text. This header is used in the XML signature generator. If the value is set to Boolean#TRUE then the message body is treated as plain text Overwrites the configuration parameter XmlSignerConfiguration#setPlainText(Boolean).

Boolean

CamelXmlSignaturePlainTextEncoding (producer)

Constant: HEADER_PLAIN_TEXT_ENCODING

Header indicating the encoding of the plain text message body. Used in the XML signature generator if the header HEADER_MESSAGE_IS_PLAIN_TEXT is set to Boolean#TRUE. Overwrites the configuration parameter XmlSignerConfiguration#setPlainTextEncoding(String).

String

CamelXmlSignatureOmitXmlDeclaration (producer)

Constant: HEADER_OMIT_XML_DECLARATION

Header which indicates that either the resulting signature document in the signature generation case or the resulting output of the verifier should not contain an XML declaration. If the header is not specified then a XML declaration is created. There is one exception: If the verifier result is a plain text this header has no effect. Possible values of the header are Boolean#TRUE or Boolean#FALSE. Overwrites the configuration parameter XmlSignatureConfiguration#setOmitXmlDeclaration(Boolean).

Boolean

CamelXmlSignatureContentReferenceUri (producer)

Constant: HEADER_CONTENT_REFERENCE_URI

The content reference URI.

String

CamelXmlSignatureContentReferenceType (producer)

Constant: HEADER_CONTENT_REFERENCE_TYPE

The content reference type.

String

CamelXmlSignatureSchemaResourceUri (producer)

Constant: HEADER_SCHEMA_RESOURCE_URI

The schema resource URI.

String

CamelXmlSignatureXpathsToIdAttributes (producer)

Constant: HEADER_XPATHS_TO_ID_ATTRIBUTES

XPaths to id attributes.

String

CamelXmlSignatureTransformMethods (producer)

Constant: HEADER_TRANSFORM_METHODS

Header for dynamic specifying the transform methods of the reference to the signed data. The value of the header must be a comma separated list with the transform algorithms, for example: http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature,http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315 Used for the XML signer. This header will overwrite the configuration property transformMethods. You cannot use transform algorithms, which need parameters like http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xslt-19991116, http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2, or http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116.

String

CamelXmlSignatureXAdESQualifyingPropertiesId (producer)

Constant: HEADER_XADES_QUALIFYING_PROPERTIES_ID

for the 'Id' attribute value of QualifyingProperties element.

String

CamelXmlSignatureXAdESSignedDataObjectPropertiesId (producer)

Constant: HEADER_XADES_SIGNED_DATA_OBJECT_PROPERTIES_ID

for the 'Id' attribute value of SignedDataObjectProperties element.

String

CamelXmlSignatureXAdESSignedSignaturePropertiesId (producer)

Constant: HEADER_XADES_SIGNED_SIGNATURE_PROPERTIES_ID

for the 'Id' attribute value of SignedSignatureProperties element.

String

CamelXmlSignatureXAdESDataObjectFormatEncoding (producer)

Constant: HEADER_XADES_DATA_OBJECT_FORMAT_ENCODING

for the value of the Encoding element of the DataObjectFormat element.

String

CamelXmlSignatureXAdESNamespace (producer)

Constant: HEADER_XADES_NAMESPACE

overwrites the XAdES namespace parameter value.

String

CamelXmlSignatureXAdESPrefix (producer)

Constant: HEADER_XADES_PREFIX

overwrites the XAdES prefix parameter value.

String

CamelCharsetName (producer)

Constant: CHARSET_NAME

The name of the charset.

String

XML Signature Wrapping Modes

XML Signature differs between enveloped, enveloping, and detached XML signature. In the enveloped XML signature case, the XML Signature is wrapped by the signed XML Document; which means that the XML signature element is a child element of a parent element, which belongs to the signed XML Document. In the enveloping XML signature case, the XML Signature contains the signed content. All other cases are called detached XML signatures.

In the enveloped XML signature case, the supported generated XML signature has the following structure (Variables are surrounded by []).

<[parent element]>
   ... <!-- Signature element is added as last child of the parent element-->
   <Signature Id="generated_unique_signature_id">
       <SignedInfo>
             <Reference URI="">
                   <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature"/>
                   (<Transform>)* <!-- By default "http://www.w3.org/2006/12/xml-c14n11" is added to the transforms -->
                   <DigestMethod>
                   <DigestValue>
             </Reference>
             (<Reference URI="#[keyinfo_Id]">
                   <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315"/>
                   <DigestMethod>
                   <DigestValue>
             </Reference>)?
             <!-- further references possible, see option 'properties' below -->
      </SignedInfo>
      <SignatureValue>
      (<KeyInfo Id="[keyinfo_id]">)?
      <!-- Object elements possible, see option 'properties' below -->
  </Signature>
</[parent element]>

In the enveloping XML signature case, the supported generated XML signature has the structure:

<Signature Id="generated_unique_signature_id">
  <SignedInfo>
         <Reference URI="#generated_unique_object_id" type="[optional_type_value]">
               (<Transform>)* <!-- By default "http://www.w3.org/2006/12/xml-c14n11" is added to the transforms -->
               <DigestMethod>
               <DigestValue>
         </Reference>
         (<Reference URI="#[keyinfo_id]">
               <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315"/>
               <DigestMethod>
               <DigestValue>
         </Reference>)?
          <!-- further references possible, see option 'properties' below  -->
  </SignedInfo>
  <SignatureValue>
  (<KeyInfo Id="[keyinfo_id]">)?
  <Object Id="generated_unique_object_id"/> <!-- The Object element contains the in-message body; the object ID can either be generated or set by the option parameter "contentObjectId" -->
  <!-- Further Object elements possible, see option 'properties' below -->
</Signature>

Detached XML signatures with the following structure are supported (see also sub-chapter XML Signatures as Siblings of Signed Elements):

(<[signed element] Id="[id_value]">
<!-- signed element must have an attribute of type ID -->
      ...

</[signed element]>
<other sibling/>*
<!-- between the signed element and the corresponding signature element, there can be other siblings.
 Signature element is added as last sibling. -->
<Signature Id="generated_unique_ID">
   <SignedInfo>
      <CanonicalizationMethod>
      <SignatureMethod>
      <Reference URI="#[id_value]" type="[optional_type_value]">
      <!-- reference URI contains the ID attribute value of the signed element -->
            (<Transform>)* <!-- By default "http://www.w3.org/2006/12/xml-c14n11" is added to the transforms -->
            <DigestMethod>
            <DigestValue>
      </Reference>
      (<Reference URI="#[generated_keyinfo_Id]">
            <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315"/>
            <DigestMethod>
            <DigestValue>
      </Reference>)?
   </SignedInfo>
   <SignatureValue>
   (<KeyInfo Id="[generated_keyinfo_id]">)?
</Signature>)+

URI Format

The camel component consists of two endpoints which have the following URI format:

xmlsecurity-sign:name[?options]
xmlsecurity-verify:name[?options]
  • With the signer endpoint, you can generate a XML signature for the body of the in-message which can be either a XML document or a plain text. The enveloped, enveloping, or detached (as of 12.14) XML signature(s) will be set to the body of the out-message.

  • With the verifier endpoint, you can validate an enveloped or enveloping XML signature or even several detached XML signatures contained in the body of the in-message; if the validation is successful, then the original content is extracted from the XML signature and set to the body of the out-message.

  • The name part in the URI can be chosen by the user to distinguish between different signer/verifier endpoints within the camel context.

Basic Example

The following example shows the basic usage of the component.

from("direct:enveloping").to("xmlsecurity-sign://enveloping?keyAccessor=#accessor",
                             "xmlsecurity-verify://enveloping?keySelector=#selector",
                             "mock:result")

In Spring XML:

<from uri="direct:enveloping" />
    <to uri="xmlsecurity-sign://enveloping?keyAccessor=#accessor" />
    <to uri="xmlsecurity-verify://enveloping?keySelector=#selector" />
<to uri="mock:result" />

For the signing process, a private key is necessary. You specify a key accessor bean which provides this private key. For the validation, the corresponding public key is necessary; you specify a key selector bean which provides this public key.

The key accessor bean must implement the KeyAccessor interface. The package org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api contains the default implementation class DefaultKeyAccessor which reads the private key from a Java keystore.

The key selector bean must implement the javax.xml.crypto.KeySelector interface. The package org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api contains the default implementation class DefaultKeySelector which reads the public key from a keystore.

In the example, the default signature algorithm http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1 is used. You can set the signature algorithm of your choice by the option signatureAlgorithm (see below). The signer endpoint creates an enveloping XML signature. If you want to create an enveloped XML signature then you must specify the parent element of the Signature element; see option parentLocalName for more details.

For creating detached XML signatures, see sub-chapter "Detached XML Signatures as Siblings of the Signed Elements".

Output Node Determination in Enveloping XML Signature Case

After the validation the node is extracted from the XML signature document which is finally returned to the output-message body. In the enveloping XML signature case, the default implementation DefaultXmlSignature2Message of XmlSignature2Message does this for the node search type Default in the following way (see option xmlSignature2Message):

  • First an object reference is determined:

    • Only same document references are taken into account (URI must start with #)

    • Also indirect same document references to an object via manifest are taken into account.

    • The resulting number of object references must be 1.

  • Then, the object is dereferenced and the object must only contain one XML element. This element is returned as output node.

This does mean that the enveloping XML signature must have either the structure:

<Signature>
      <SignedInfo>
         <Reference URI="#object"/>
         <!-- further references possible but they must not point to an Object or Manifest containing an object reference -->
         ...
      </SignedInfo>

      <Object Id="object">
           <!-- contains one XML element which is extracted to the message body -->
      <Object>
      <!-- further object elements possible which are not referenced-->
      ...
      (<KeyInfo>)?
</Signature>

or the structure:

<Signature>
      <SignedInfo>
         <Reference URI="#manifest"/>
         <!-- further references  are possible but they must not point to an Object or other manifest containing an object reference -->
         ...
      </SignedInfo>

      <Object >
         <Manifest Id="manifest">
            <Reference URI=#object/>
         </Manifest>
      </Objet>
      <Object Id="object">
          <!-- contains the DOM node which is extracted to the message body -->
      </Object>
       <!-- further object elements possible which are not referenced -->
      ...
      (<KeyInfo>)?
</Signature>

Detached XML Signatures as Siblings of the Signed Elements

You can create detached signatures where the signature is a sibling of the signed element. The following example contains two detached signatures. The first signature is for the element C and the second signature is for element A. The signatures are nested; the second signature is for the element A which also contains the first signature.

Example Detached XML Signatures

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<root>
    <A ID="IDforA">
        <B>
            <C ID="IDforC">
                <D>dvalue</D>
            </C>
            <ds:Signature xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
                Id="_6bf13099-0568-4d76-8649-faf5dcb313c0">
                <ds:SignedInfo>
                    <ds:CanonicalizationMethod
                        Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315" />
                    <ds:SignatureMethod
                        Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1" />
                    <ds:Reference URI="#IDforC">
                        ...
                    </ds:Reference>
                </ds:SignedInfo>
                <ds:SignatureValue>aUDFmiG71</ds:SignatureValue>
            </ds:Signature>
        </B>
    </A>
    <ds:Signature xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"Id="_6b02fb8a-30df-42c6-ba25-76eba02c8214">
        <ds:SignedInfo>
            <ds:CanonicalizationMethod
                Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315" />
            <ds:SignatureMethod
                Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#rsa-sha1" />
            <ds:Reference URI="#IDforA">
                ...
            </ds:Reference>
        </ds:SignedInfo>
        <ds:SignatureValue>q3tvRoGgc8cMUqUSzP6C21zb7tt04riPnDuk=</ds:SignatureValue>
    </ds:Signature>
<root>

The example shows that you can sign several elements and that for each element a signature is created as sibling. The elements to be signed must have an attribute of type ID. The ID type of the attribute must be defined in the XML schema (see option schemaResourceUri). You specify a list of XPATH expressions pointing to attributes of type ID (see option xpathsToIdAttributes). These attributes determine the elements to be signed. The elements are signed by the same key given by the keyAccessor bean. Elements with higher (i.e. deeper) hierarchy level are signed first. In the example, the element C is signed before the element A.

Java DSL Example

from("direct:detached")
  .to("xmlsecurity-sign://detached?keyAccessor=#keyAccessorBeant&xpathsToIdAttributes=#xpathsToIdAttributesBean&schemaResourceUri=Test.xsd")
  .to("xmlsecurity-verify://detached?keySelector=#keySelectorBean&schemaResourceUri=org/apache/camel/component/xmlsecurity/Test.xsd")
  .to("mock:result");

Spring Example

<bean id="xpathsToIdAttributesBean" class="java.util.ArrayList">
      <constructor-arg type="java.util.Collection">
          <list>
              <bean
                  class="org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api.XmlSignatureHelper"
                  factory-method="getXpathFilter">
                  <constructor-arg type="java.lang.String"
                      value="/ns:root/a/@ID" />
                  <constructor-arg>
                      <map key-type="java.lang.String" value-type="java.lang.String">
                          <entry key="ns" value="http://test" />
                      </map>
                  </constructor-arg>
              </bean>
          </list>
      </constructor-arg>
  </bean>
...
 <from uri="direct:detached" />
      <to
          uri="xmlsecurity-sign://detached?keyAccessor=#keyAccessorBean&amp;xpathsToIdAttributes=#xpathsToIdAttributesBean&amp;schemaResourceUri=Test.xsd" />
      <to
          uri="xmlsecurity-verify://detached?keySelector=#keySelectorBean&amp;schemaResourceUri=Test.xsd" />
      <to uri="mock:result" />

XAdES-BES/EPES for the Signer Endpoint

Since Camel 2.15.0

XML Advanced Electronic Signatures (XAdES) defines extensions to XML Signature. This standard was defined by the European Telecommunication Standards Institute and allows you to create signatures which are compliant to the European Union Directive (1999/93/EC) on a Community framework for electronic signatures. XAdES defines different sets of signature properties which are called signature forms. We support the signature forms Basic Electronic Signature (XAdES-BES) and Explicit Policy Based Electronic Signature (XAdES-EPES) for the Signer Endpoint. The forms Electronic Signature with Validation Data XAdES-T and XAdES-C are not supported.

We support the following properties of the XAdES-EPES form ("?" denotes zero or one occurrence):

Supported XAdES-EPES Properties

<QualifyingProperties Target>
    <SignedProperties>
        <SignedSignatureProperties>
            (SigningTime)?
            (SigningCertificate)?
            (SignaturePolicyIdentifier)
            (SignatureProductionPlace)?
            (SignerRole)?
        </SignedSignatureProperties>
        <SignedDataObjectProperties>
            (DataObjectFormat)?
            (CommitmentTypeIndication)?
        </SignedDataObjectProperties>
    </SignedProperties>
</QualifyingProperties>

The properties of the XAdES-BES form are the same except that the SignaturePolicyIdentifier property is not part of XAdES-BES.

You can configure the XAdES-BES/EPES properties via the bean org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api.XAdESSignatureProperties or org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api.DefaultXAdESSignatureProperties. XAdESSignatureProperties does support all properties mentioned above except the SigningCertificate property. To get the SigningCertificate property, you must overwrite either the method XAdESSignatureProperties.getSigningCertificate() or XAdESSignatureProperties.getSigningCertificateChain(). The class DefaultXAdESSignatureProperties overwrites the method getSigningCertificate() and allows you to specify the signing certificate via a keystore and alias. The following example shows all parameters you can specify. If you do not need certain parameters you can just omit them.

XAdES-BES/EPES Example in Java DSL

Keystore keystore = ... // load a keystore
DefaultKeyAccessor accessor = new DefaultKeyAccessor();
accessor.setKeyStore(keystore);
accessor.setPassword("password");
accessor.setAlias("cert_alias"); // signer key alias

DefaultXAdESSignatureProperties props = new DefaultXAdESSignatureProperties();
props.setNamespace("http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.3.2#"); // sets the namespace for the XAdES elements; the namspace is related to the XAdES version, default value is "http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.3.2#", other possible values are "http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.1.1#" and "http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.2.2#"
props.setPrefix("etsi"); // sets the prefix for the XAdES elements, default value is "etsi"

// signing certificate
props.setKeystore(keystore));
props.setAlias("cert_alias"); // specify the alias of the signing certificate in the keystore = signer key alias
props.setDigestAlgorithmForSigningCertificate(DigestMethod.SHA256); // possible values for the algorithm are "http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1", "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256", "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#sha384", "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha512", default value is "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256"
props.setSigningCertificateURIs(Collections.singletonList("http://certuri"));

// signing time
props.setAddSigningTime(true);

// policy
props.setSignaturePolicy(XAdESSignatureProperties.SIG_POLICY_EXPLICIT_ID);
// also the values XAdESSignatureProperties.SIG_POLICY_NONE ("None"), and XAdESSignatureProperties.SIG_POLICY_IMPLIED ("Implied")are possible, default value is XAdESSignatureProperties.SIG_POLICY_EXPLICIT_ID ("ExplicitId")
// For "None" and "Implied" you must not specify any further policy parameters
props.setSigPolicyId("urn:oid:1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.6.1");
props.setSigPolicyIdQualifier("OIDAsURN"); //allowed values are empty string, "OIDAsURI", "OIDAsURN"; default value is empty string
props.setSigPolicyIdDescription("invoice version 3.1");
props.setSignaturePolicyDigestAlgorithm(DigestMethod.SHA256);// possible values for the algorithm are "http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1", http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256", "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#sha384", "http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha512", default value is http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#sha256"
props.setSignaturePolicyDigestValue("Ohixl6upD6av8N7pEvDABhEL6hM=");
// you can add  qualifiers for the signature policy either by specifying text or an XML fragment with the root element "SigPolicyQualifier"
props.setSigPolicyQualifiers(Arrays
    .asList(new String[] {
        "<SigPolicyQualifier xmlns=\"http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.3.2#\"><SPURI>http://test.com/sig.policy.pdf</SPURI><SPUserNotice><ExplicitText>display text</ExplicitText>"
            + "</SPUserNotice></SigPolicyQualifier>", "category B" }));
props.setSigPolicyIdDocumentationReferences(Arrays.asList(new String[] {"http://test.com/policy.doc.ref1.txt",
    "http://test.com/policy.doc.ref2.txt" }));

// production place
props.setSignatureProductionPlaceCity("Munich");
props.setSignatureProductionPlaceCountryName("Germany");
props.setSignatureProductionPlacePostalCode("80331");
props.setSignatureProductionPlaceStateOrProvince("Bavaria");

//role
// you can add claimed roles either by specifying text or an XML fragment with the root element "ClaimedRole"
props.setSignerClaimedRoles(Arrays.asList(new String[] {"test",
    "<a:ClaimedRole xmlns:a=\"http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.3.2#\"><TestRole>TestRole</TestRole></a:ClaimedRole>" }));
props.setSignerCertifiedRoles(Collections.singletonList(new XAdESEncapsulatedPKIData("Ahixl6upD6av8N7pEvDABhEL6hM=",
    "http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.2.2#DER", "IdCertifiedRole")));

// data object format
props.setDataObjectFormatDescription("invoice");
props.setDataObjectFormatMimeType("text/xml");
props.setDataObjectFormatIdentifier("urn:oid:1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.6.2");
props.setDataObjectFormatIdentifierQualifier("OIDAsURN"); //allowed values are empty string, "OIDAsURI", "OIDAsURN"; default value is empty string
props.setDataObjectFormatIdentifierDescription("identifier desc");
props.setDataObjectFormatIdentifierDocumentationReferences(Arrays.asList(new String[] {
    "http://test.com/dataobject.format.doc.ref1.txt", "http://test.com/dataobject.format.doc.ref2.txt" }));

//commitment
props.setCommitmentTypeId("urn:oid:1.2.840.113549.1.9.16.6.4");
props.setCommitmentTypeIdQualifier("OIDAsURN"); //allowed values are empty string, "OIDAsURI", "OIDAsURN"; default value is empty string
props.setCommitmentTypeIdDescription("description for commitment type ID");
props.setCommitmentTypeIdDocumentationReferences(Arrays.asList(new String[] {"http://test.com/commitment.ref1.txt",
    "http://test.com/commitment.ref2.txt" }));
// you can specify a commitment type qualifier either by simple text or an XML fragment with root element "CommitmentTypeQualifier"
props.setCommitmentTypeQualifiers(Arrays.asList(new String[] {"commitment qualifier",
    "<c:CommitmentTypeQualifier xmlns:c=\"http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.3.2#\"><C>c</C></c:CommitmentTypeQualifier>" }));

beanRegistry.bind("xmlSignatureProperties",props);
beanRegistry.bind("keyAccessorDefault",keyAccessor);

// you must reference the properties bean in the "xmlsecurity" URI
from("direct:xades").to("xmlsecurity-sign://xades?keyAccessor=#keyAccessorDefault&properties=#xmlSignatureProperties")
             .to("mock:result");

XAdES-BES/EPES Example in Spring XML

...
<from uri="direct:xades" />
    <to
        uri="xmlsecurity-sign://xades?keyAccessor=#accessorRsa&amp;properties=#xadesProperties" />
    <to uri="mock:result" />
...
<bean id="xadesProperties"
    class="org.apache.camel.component.xmlsecurity.api.XAdESSignatureProperties">
    <!-- For more properties see the previous Java DSL example.
         If you want to have a signing certificate then use the bean class DefaultXAdESSignatureProperties (see the previous Java DSL example). -->
    <property name="signaturePolicy" value="ExplicitId" />
    <property name="sigPolicyId" value="http://www.test.com/policy.pdf" />
    <property name="sigPolicyIdDescription" value="factura" />
    <property name="signaturePolicyDigestAlgorithm" value="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
    <property name="signaturePolicyDigestValue" value="Ohixl6upD6av8N7pEvDABhEL1hM=" />
    <property name="signerClaimedRoles" ref="signerClaimedRoles_XMLSigner" />
    <property name="dataObjectFormatDescription" value="Factura electrónica" />
    <property name="dataObjectFormatMimeType" value="text/xml" />
</bean>
<bean class="java.util.ArrayList" id="signerClaimedRoles_XMLSigner">
    <constructor-arg>
        <list>
            <value>Emisor</value>
            <value>&lt;ClaimedRole
                xmlns=&quot;http://uri.etsi.org/01903/v1.3.2#&quot;&gt;&lt;test
                xmlns=&quot;http://test.com/&quot;&gt;test&lt;/test&gt;&lt;/ClaimedRole&gt;</value>
        </list>
    </constructor-arg>
</bean>

Limitations with regard to XAdES version 1.4.2

  • No support for signature form XAdES-T and XAdES-C

  • Only signer part implemented. Verifier part currently not available.

  • No support for the QualifyingPropertiesReference element (see section 6.3.2 of spec).

  • No support for the Transforms element contained in the SignaturePolicyId element contained in the SignaturePolicyIdentifier element

  • No support of the CounterSignature element → no support for the UnsignedProperties element

  • At most one DataObjectFormat element. More than one DataObjectFormat element makes no sense because we have only one data object which is signed (this is the incoming message body to the XML signer endpoint).

  • At most one CommitmentTypeIndication element. More than one CommitmentTypeIndication element makes no sense because we have only one data object which is signed (this is the incoming message body to the XML signer endpoint).

  • A CommitmentTypeIndication element contains always the AllSignedDataObjects element. The ObjectReference element within CommitmentTypeIndication element is not supported.

  • The AllDataObjectsTimeStamp element is not supported

  • The IndividualDataObjectsTimeStamp element is not supported