Re: Problems writing signed document to disk

> Ian,
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> I did not try it, but maybe your output to file adds "pretty  
> printing"? This means adding white spaces which breaks a signature.
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> Cheers,
> Jörg Bartholdt
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> Hi everyone,
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> Something weird is going on when I try to write my signed Document  
> to disk...
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> //doc is a Document which has gone through the signing process...
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> Transformer xformer =  
> TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
> DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
> StreamResult result = new StreamResult(new File("output.xml"));
> xformer.transform(source, result);
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> DocumentBuilderFactory dbf2 = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
> dbf2.setNamespaceAware(true);
> DocumentBuilder db2 = dbf2.newDocumentBuilder();
> Document doc2 = db2.parse(new File("output.xml"));
> boolean res1 = CryptoUtils.verifyXmlSignature(doc);
> boolean res2 = CryptoUtils.verifyXmlSignature(doc2);
> System.out.println("RES 1 (raw) was " + res1);
> System.out.println("RES 2 (read) was " + res2);
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> This code prints out:
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> INFO  org.apache.xml.security.signature.Reference - Verification  
> successful for URI "#IC01"
> WARN  org.apache.xml.security.signature.Reference - Verification  
> failed for URI "#IC01"
> WARN  CryptoUtils - Signature was invalid
> RES 1 (raw) was true
> RES 2 (read) was false
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> any idea why writing the DOM to disk would make subsequent reads to  
> validate it fail?
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> The only things I can think of are a) the Transformer is altering  
> the document before writing it to disk or b) there are a lot of  
> elements whose content is base64 encoded and making somehow they are  
> getting mangled when written to disk?
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> Any help is appreciated!
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> - ian.