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[jira] Closed: (WSS-239) Need ability to handle password "equivalent" between WSPasswordCallback and UsernameToken when it's binary data

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WSS-239?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Colm O hEigeartaigh closed WSS-239.
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> Need ability to handle password "equivalent" between WSPasswordCallback and UsernameToken when it's binary data
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>
>                 Key: WSS-239
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WSS-239
>             Project: WSS4J
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: WSS4J Core
>    Affects Versions: 1.5.8
>            Reporter: Jim Utter
>            Assignee: Colm O hEigeartaigh
>             Fix For: 1.5.10, 1.6
>
>         Attachments: WSS-239-1_5_x-fixes.patch, wss-239-revised.patch, wss4j-1.5.9-password-equivalence.patch
>
>
> Per the oasis spec, the UsernamePassword is summarized by the algorithm:
>    base64(sha-1(nonce+created+password))
> But, in some scenarios you don't store cleartext passwords - only the sha-1 hash
> of them.  The oasis spec allows this via what they claim as "..password
> equivalent".  The problem I'm running into is that the password equivalent
> is sha-1(password) or ultimately this equivalent:
>    base64(sha-1(nonce+created+sha-1(password)))
> When the applicability of this approach was questioned to the oasis list,
> they confirmed it:
> http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/wss-dev/201006/msg00003.html
> But, when using the wss4j WSPasswordCallback mechanism, the call expects the
> password to be a string but the binary output of the digest if converted to
> a string, then back to the bytes (by UsernameToken.doPasswordDigest()) does
> not result in the original byte array - causing any digest calculations to
> fail.
> This was originally posted in the mailing list below where Colm suggested I provide a patch:
> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ws-wss4j-dev/201006.mbox/%3CAANLkTilnDI8iJOpHC6Lgv3mkP5_I_UtrcFeNdkDK1BA0@mail.gmail.com%3E

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