/* SignedObject.java --- Signed Object Class Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU Classpath. GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. As a special exception, if you link this library with other files to produce an executable, this library does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ package java.security; import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.ObjectInputStream; import java.io.ObjectOutputStream; import java.io.Serializable; /** SignedObject is used for storing rutime objects whose integrity cannot be compromised without being detected. SignedObject contains a Serializable object which is yet to be signed and its signature. The signed copy is a "deep copy" (in serialized form) of the original object. Any changes to the original will not affect the original. Several things to note are that, first there is no need to initialize the signature engine as this class will handle that automatically. Second, verification will only succeed if the public key corresponds to the private key used to generate the SignedObject. For fexibility, the signature engine can be specified in the constructor or the verify method. The programmer who writes code that verifies the SignedObject has not changed should be aware of the Signature engine they use. A malicious Signature may choose to always return true on verification and bypass the secrity check. The GNU provider provides the NIST standard DSA which uses DSA and SHA-1. It can be specified by SHA/DSA, SHA-1/DSA or its OID. If the RSA signature algorithm is provided then it could be MD2/RSA. MD5/RSA, or SHA-1/RSA. The algorithm must be specified because there is no default. @author Mark Benvenuto @since JDK 1.2 */ public final class SignedObject implements Serializable { private byte[] content; private byte[] signature; private String thealgorithm; /** Constructs a new SignedObject from a Serializeable object. The object is signed with private key and signature engine @param object the object to sign @param signingKey the key to sign with @param signingEngine the signature engine to use @throws IOException serialization error occured @throws InvalidKeyException invalid key @throws SignatureException signing error */ public SignedObject(Serializable object, PrivateKey signingKey, Signature signingEngine) throws IOException, InvalidKeyException, SignatureException { thealgorithm = signingEngine.getAlgorithm(); ByteArrayOutputStream ostream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); ObjectOutputStream p = new ObjectOutputStream(ostream); p.writeObject(object); p.flush(); content = ostream.toByteArray(); signingEngine.initSign(signingKey); signingEngine.update(content); signature = signingEngine.sign(); } /** Returns the encapsulated object. The object is de-serialized before being returned. @return the encapsulated object @throws IOException de-serialization error occured @throws ClassNotFoundException de-serialization error occured */ public Object getObject() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException { ByteArrayInputStream istream = new ByteArrayInputStream(content); return new ObjectInputStream(istream).readObject(); } /** Returns the signature of the encapsulated object. @return a byte array containing the signature */ public byte[] getSignature() { return signature; } /** Returns the name of the signature algorithm. @return the name of the signature algorithm. */ public String getAlgorithm() { return thealgorithm; } /** Verifies the SignedObject by checking that the signature that this class contains for the encapsulated object. @param verificationKey the public key to use @param verificationEngine the signature engine to use @return true if signature is correct, false otherwise @throws InvalidKeyException invalid key @throws SignatureException signature verification failed */ public boolean verify(PublicKey verificationKey, Signature verificationEngine) throws InvalidKeyException, SignatureException { verificationEngine.initVerify(verificationKey); verificationEngine.update(content); return verificationEngine.verify(signature); } // readObject is called to restore the state of the SignedObject from a // stream. //private void readObject(ObjectInputStream s) // throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException }