From: Damjan Rems <d_rems@...>
Date: 2006-10-11T21:59:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and XML Security

Timothy Goddard wrote:
> The Ruby/OpenSSL library is pretty poorly documented but you can pretty
> much read it off the OpenSSL library's API. To sign a document you have
> to pass in the hash algorithm to use and the text to be signed into the
> private key object's sign method:
> 
> example:
> 
> # pkey is our private key
> pkey = OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.generate(1024)
> pub = pkey.public_key
> 
> # text is our text to be signed
> text = "Hello, World!"
> 
> signature = pkey.sign(OpenSSL::Digest::SHA1.new, text)
> 
> if pub.verify(OpenSSL::Digest::SHA1.new, signature, text)
>   puts "It works!"
> else
>   puts "S#%t! It failed!"
> end

Thank you very VERY much. I will be back when I'll get my first test 
message through.

I know it has nothing to do with XML, but it has everything to do with 
"XML security". I was looking for topic on net which would lead me to 
ruby. But I could not find any. So here it is now.


by

  TheR

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