In many cases, a default built-in list based keys store is not good enough. For example, XML Security Library (and the built-in default keys store) have no synchronization and you'll need to implement a custom keys store if you want to add or remove keys while other threads use the store.
Example 19. Creating a custom keys manager.
/** * create_files_keys_mngr: * * Creates a files based keys manager: we assume that key name is * the key file name, * * Returns pointer to newly created keys manager or NULL if an error occurs. */ xmlSecKeysMngrPtr create_files_keys_mngr(void) { xmlSecKeyStorePtr keysStore; xmlSecKeysMngrPtr mngr; /* create files based keys store */ keysStore = xmlSecKeyStoreCreate(files_keys_store_get_klass()); if(keysStore == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: failed to create keys store.\n"); return(NULL); } /* create keys manager */ mngr = xmlSecKeysMngrCreate(); if(mngr == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: failed to create keys manager.\n"); xmlSecKeyStoreDestroy(keysStore); return(NULL); } /* add store to keys manager, from now on keys manager destroys the store if needed */ if(xmlSecKeysMngrAdoptKeysStore(mngr, keysStore) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: failed to add keys store to keys manager.\n"); xmlSecKeyStoreDestroy(keysStore); xmlSecKeysMngrDestroy(mngr); return(NULL); } /* initialize crypto library specific data in keys manager */ if(xmlSecCryptoKeysMngrInit(mngr) < 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Error: failed to initialize crypto data in keys manager.\n"); xmlSecKeysMngrDestroy(mngr); return(NULL); } /* set the get key callback */ mngr->getKey = xmlSecKeysMngrGetKey; return(mngr); } /**************************************************************************** * * Files Keys Store: we assume that key's name (content of the * <dsig:KeyName/> element is a name of the file with a key. * Attention: this probably not a good solution for high traffic systems. * ***************************************************************************/ static xmlSecKeyPtr files_keys_store_find_key (xmlSecKeyStorePtr store, const xmlChar* name, xmlSecKeyInfoCtxPtr keyInfoCtx); static xmlSecKeyStoreKlass files_keys_store_klass = { sizeof(xmlSecKeyStoreKlass), sizeof(xmlSecKeyStore), BAD_CAST "files-based-keys-store", /* const xmlChar* name; */ NULL, /* xmlSecKeyStoreInitializeMethod initialize; */ NULL, /* xmlSecKeyStoreFinalizeMethod finalize; */ files_keys_store_find_key, /* xmlSecKeyStoreFindKeyMethod findKey; */ /* reserved for the future */ NULL, /* void* reserved0; */ NULL, /* void* reserved1; */ }; /** * files_keys_store_get_klass: * * The files based keys store klass: we assume that key name is the * key file name, * * Returns files based keys store klass. */ xmlSecKeyStoreId files_keys_store_get_klass(void) { return(&files_keys_store_klass); } /** * files_keys_store_find_key: * @store: the pointer to default keys store. * @name: the desired key name. * @keyInfoCtx: the pointer to <dsig:KeyInfo/> node processing context. * * Lookups key in the @store. * * Returns pointer to key or NULL if key not found or an error occurs. */ static xmlSecKeyPtr files_keys_store_find_key(xmlSecKeyStorePtr store, const xmlChar* name, xmlSecKeyInfoCtxPtr keyInfoCtx) { xmlSecKeyPtr key; const xmlChar* p; assert(store); assert(keyInfoCtx); /* it's possible to do not have the key name or desired key type * but we could do nothing in this case */ if((name == NULL) || (keyInfoCtx->keyReq.keyId == xmlSecKeyDataIdUnknown)){ return(NULL); } /* we don't want to open files in a folder other than "current"; * to prevent it limit the characters in the key name to alpha/digit, * '.', '-' or '_'. */ for(p = name; (*p) != '\0'; ++p) { if(!isalnum((*p)) && ((*p) != '.') && ((*p) != '-') && ((*p) != '_')) { return(NULL); } } if((keyInfoCtx->keyReq.keyId == xmlSecKeyDataDsaId) || (keyInfoCtx->keyReq.keyId == xmlSecKeyDataRsaId)) { /* load key from a pem file, if key is not found then it's an error (is it?) */ key = xmlSecCryptoAppKeyLoad(name, xmlSecKeyDataFormatPem, NULL, NULL, NULL); if(key == NULL) { fprintf(stderr,"Error: failed to load pem key from \"%s\"\n", name); return(NULL); } } else { /* otherwise it's a binary key, if key is not found then it's an error (is it?) */ key = xmlSecKeyReadBinaryFile(keyInfoCtx->keyReq.keyId, name); if(key == NULL) { fprintf(stderr,"Error: failed to load key from binary file \"%s\"\n", name); return(NULL); } } /* set key name */ if(xmlSecKeySetName(key, name) < 0) { fprintf(stderr,"Error: failed to set key name for key from \"%s\"\n", name); xmlSecKeyDestroy(key); return(NULL); } return(key); }