Configure the server for request digital signature verification... choosing the verification method: WAS v5.1

Configure the server for request digital signature verification... choosing the verification method
Prior to completing these steps, read either of the following topics to become familiar with the Security Extensions tab and the Binding Configurations tab in the Web Services Editor within the WAS Toolkit...

Configuring the server security bindings using the WAS Toolkit
Configuring the server security bindings using the administrative console
Use these two tabs to configure the Web services security extensions and Web services security bindings, respectively. You must specify which message parts contain digital signature information that must be verified by the server. See Configuring the server for request digital signature verification: verifying the message parts. The message parts specified for the client request sender must match the message parts specified for the server request receiver. Likewise, the digital signature method chosen for the client must match the digital signature method used by the server. Complete the following steps to configure the server for request digital signature verification. The steps describe how to modify the extensions to indicate which digital signature method the server will use during verification.

Launch the WAS Toolkit and either click Windows > Open Prospective > Java or Windows > Open Prospective > Resource.
Select the Web services-enabled Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) or Web module.
In the Package Explorer window, locate the META-INF directory for an EJB module or the WEB-INF directory for a Web module.
Right-click the webservices.xml file, and click Open With > Web Services Editor.
Click the Binding Configurations tab.
Expand the Security Request Receiver Binding Configuration Details > Signing Information section.
Click Edit to edit the signing information.The signing information dialog is displayed, select or enter the following information:

Canonicalization method algorithm
Digest method algorithm
Signature method algorithm
Use certificate path reference
Trust anchor reference
Certificate store reference
Trust any certificate
For more conceptual information on digitally signing Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) messages, see XML digital signature. The following table describes the purpose for each of these selections. Some of the following definitions are based on the XML-Signature specification, which is located at the following Web address: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core .

Name Purpose
Canonicalization method algorithm Canonicalizes the <SignedInfo> element before it is digested as part of the signature operation. The algorithm selected for the server request receiver configuration must match the algorithm selected in the client request sender configuration.
Digest method algorithm Applies to the data after transforms are applied, if specified, to yield the <DigestValue> element. The signing of the <DigestValue> element binds resource content to the signer key. The algorithm selected for the server request receiver configuration must match the algorithm selected in the client request sender configuration.
Signature method algorithm Converts the canonicalized <SignedInfo> element into the <SignatureValue> element. The algorithm selected for the server request receiver configuration must match the algorithm selected in the client request sender configuration.
Use certificate path reference or Trust any certificate Validates a certificate or signature sent with a message. When a message is signed, the public key used to sign it is sent with the message. This public key or certificate might not be validated at the receiving end. By selecting User certificate path reference, configure a trust anchor reference and a certificate store reference to validate the certificate sent with the message. By selecting Trust any certificate, the signature is validated by the certificate sent with the message without the certificate itself being validated.
Use certificate path reference: Trust anchor reference Refers to a key store that contains trusted, self-signed certificates and certificate authority (CA) certificates. These certificates are trusted certificates that you can use with any applications in your deployment.
Use certificate path reference: Certificate store reference Contains a collection of X.509 certificates. These certificates are not trusted for all applications in your deployment, but might be used as an intermediary to validate certificates for an application. See

If you configure the client and server signing information correctly, but receive a Soap body not signed error when executing the client, you might need to configure the actor. You can configure the actor in the following locations on the client in the Web Services Client Editor within the WAS Toolkit:

Click Security Extensions > Client Service Configuration Details and indicate the actor information in the Actor URI field.
Click Security Extensions > Request Sender Configuration > Details and indicate the actor information in the Actor field.

You must configure the same actor strings for the Web service on the server, which processes the request and sends the response back. Configure the actor in the following locations in the Web Services Editor within the WAS Toolkit...

Click Security Extensions > Server Service Configuration.
Click Security Extensions > Response Sender Service Configuration Details > Details and indicate the actor information in the Actor field.

The actor information on both the client and server must refer to the same exact string. When the actor fields on the client and server match, the request or response is acted upon instead of being forwarded downstream. The actor fields might be different when you have Web services acting as a gateway to other Web services. However, in all other cases, make sure that the actor information matches on the client and server. When Web services are acting as a gateway and they do not have the same actor configured as the request passing through the gateway, Web services do not process the message from a client. Instead, these Web services send the request downstream. The downstream process that contains the correct actor string processes the request. The same situation occurs for the response. Therefore, it is important that you verify that the appropriate client and server actor fields are synchronized.
You have specified the method that the server uses to verify the digital signature in the message parts.
After you configure the client for request signing and the server for request digital signature verification, configure the server and the client to handle the response. Next, specify the response signing for the server. See Configuring the server for response signing: Digitally signing message parts for more information.

See Also
XML digital signature
Request sender
Request receiver
Securing Web services using XML digital signature
Configuring the server security bindings using the Assembly Toolkit
Configuring the server security bindings using the administrative console
Configuring the server for request digital signature verification: verifying the message parts
Configuring trust anchors using the Assembly Toolkit
Configuring trust anchors using the administrative console
Configuring the server-side collection certificate store using the Assembly Toolkit
Configuring the client-side collection certificate store using the Assembly Toolkit
Configuring the client-side collection certificate store using the administrative console
Configuring default collection certificate stores at the server level in the WAS administrative console
Configuring the server for response signing: Digitally signing message parts

Name	Purpose
Canonicalization method algorithm	Canonicalizes the <SignedInfo> element before it is digested as part of the signature operation. The algorithm selected for the server request receiver configuration must match the algorithm selected in the client request sender configuration.
Digest method algorithm	Applies to the data after transforms are applied, if specified, to yield the <DigestValue> element. The signing of the <DigestValue> element binds resource content to the signer key. The algorithm selected for the server request receiver configuration must match the algorithm selected in the client request sender configuration.
Signature method algorithm	Converts the canonicalized <SignedInfo> element into the <SignatureValue> element. The algorithm selected for the server request receiver configuration must match the algorithm selected in the client request sender configuration.
Use certificate path reference or Trust any certificate	Validates a certificate or signature sent with a message. When a message is signed, the public key used to sign it is sent with the message. This public key or certificate might not be validated at the receiving end. By selecting User certificate path reference, configure a trust anchor reference and a certificate store reference to validate the certificate sent with the message. By selecting Trust any certificate, the signature is validated by the certificate sent with the message without the certificate itself being validated.
Use certificate path reference: Trust anchor reference	Refers to a key store that contains trusted, self-signed certificates and certificate authority (CA) certificates. These certificates are trusted certificates that you can use with any applications in your deployment.
Use certificate path reference: Certificate store reference	Contains a collection of X.509 certificates. These certificates are not trusted for all applications in your deployment, but might be used as an intermediary to validate certificates for an application. See