XML Digital Signature Tool 0.1.3.20080629
FIREFOX ADDON XML DIGITAL SIGNATURE TOOL
XML Digital Signature Tool is a Firefox extension for for processing Digital Signature in XML documents (as per W3C standard for XML signature: http://www.w3.org/Signature/).
The XML digital signature tool is built on top of Apache XML security C library (version 1.3), called XSEC (http://xml.apache.org/security/c/index.html). We made no changes to XSEC source code. We just compiled the source with NSS option to provide cryptographic functionality using browser's CERT DB. The recompiled XSEC library is packaged with the XPI file for this extension.
This tool provides an XPCOM-IDL based wrapper around C++ based Apache XML security library. Our XPCOM-IDL based API allows any Firefox based extension to access XSEC library using JavaScript and C++. This tool also provides XUL based GUI for specifying various parameters for signing XML files and verifying signed XML files.
In addition, the tool provides following features:
- ability to generate Self-Issued SAML Token (both v1.1 and v2.0) using the RSA/DSA keys in the certificate DB. (http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/) The SAML Token generation is implemented using a XPCOM based component.
- XPCOM based API for UUID generation. The XPCOM implementation reuses the UUID generation source code in the RFC4122 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt). We have adapted the source code for Mozilla NSS based digest and added string based UUID API.
- Signing of HTML document and verification of signed HTML pages - follows W3C HTML Signing Profile (http://www.w3.org/2007/11/h6n/)
For more information: http://pubs.research.avayalabs.com/pdfs/ALR-2007-013.pdf
Note: Please download and install Apache XML libraries before installing this add-on. See the "Advanced Details" section for installation instruction for Apache XERCES/XALAN C++ libraries.
Note: This tool works only on x86-based Windows and Linux OSes.
What is new in 0.1.3.20080629 software version? - The compatibility update for Firefox 3.
Support of MacOSX-x86 and Linux-64_x86 is included but they are not enabled.. What is expected in the future? Newly-made XML Digital Signature Tool 0.2 be downloaded from current page, we also looking forward to unconfirmed 0.3 release build. You may download addon-4522-latest.xpi directly, estimated download time by ISDN or CDMA [~128 kbit/s] is 0:02:26. Just write the reviews of the XML Digital Signature Tool. System requirements are Firefox:3.0–3.0.*. Program has been scanned and verified by the several antivirus and anti-spyware applications and XML Digital Signature Tool found to be clean. The following languages are supported by XML Digital Signature Tool: English.
