Google::SAML::Response - Generate signed XML documents as SAML responses for


Google-SAML-Response documentation Contained in the Google-SAML-Response distribution.

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NAME

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Google::SAML::Response - Generate signed XML documents as SAML responses for Google's SSO implementation

VERSION

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You are currently reading the documentation for version 0.10

DESCRIPTION

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Google::SAML::Response can be used to generate a signed XML document that is needed for logging your users into Google using SSO.

You have some sort of web application that can identify and authenticate users. You want users to be able to use some sort of Google service such as Google mail.

When using SSO with your Google partner account, your users will send a request to a Google URL. If the user isn't already logged in to Google, Google will redirect him to a URL that you can define. Behind this URL, you need to have a script that authenticates users in your original framework and generates a SAML response for Google that you send back to the user whose browser will then submit it back to Google. If everything works, users will then be logged into their Google account and they don't even have to know their usernames or passwords.

SYNOPSIS

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 use Google::SAML::Response;
 use CGI;

 # get SAMLRequest parameter:
 my $req = CGI->new()->param('SAMLRequest');

 # authenticate user
 ...

 # find our user's login for Google
 ...

 # Generate SAML response
 my $saml = Google::SAML::Response->new( { 
                            key     => $key, 
                            login   => $login, 
                            request => $req 
            } );
 my $xml  = $saml->get_response_xml();

 # Alternatively, send a HTML page to the client that will redirect
 # her to Google. You have to extract the RelayState param from the cgi
 # environment first.

 print $saml->get_google_form( $relayState );

PREREQUISITES

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You will need the following modules installed:

* Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA
* Crypt::OpenSSL::Bignum
* XML::Canonical or XML::CanonicalizeXML|XML::Canonical or XML::CanonicalizeXML
* Digest::SHA
* Date::Format
* Google::SAML::Request

RESOURCES

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XML-Signature Syntax and Processing

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/

Google-Documentation on SSO and SAML

http://code.google.com/apis/apps/sso/saml_reference_implementation.html

XML Security Library

http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/

METHODS

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new

Creates a new object and needs to have all parameters needed to generate the signed xml later on. Parameters are passed in as a hash-reference.

Required parameters

* request

The SAML request, base64-encoded and all, just as retrieved from the GET request your user contacted you with (make sure that it's not url-encoded, though)

* key

The path to your private key that will be used to sign the response. Currently, only RSA and DSA keys without pass phrases are supported. NOTE: To handle DSA keys, the module Crypt::OpenSSL::DSA needs to be installed. However, it is not listed as a requirement in the Makefile for Google::SAML::Response, so make sure it really is installed before using DSA keys.

* login

Your user's login name with Google

Optional parameters

* ttl

Time to live: Number of seconds your response should be valid. Default is two minutes.

* canonicalizer

The name of the module that will be used to canonicalize parts of our xml. Currently, XML::Canonical and XML::CanonicalizeXML are supported. XML::CanonicalizeXML is the default.

get_response_xml

Generate the signed response xml and return it as a string

The method does what the w3c tells us to do (http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/#sec-CoreGeneration):

3.1.1 Reference Generation

For each data object being signed:

1. Apply the Transforms, as determined by the application, to the data object.

2. Calculate the digest value over the resulting data object.

3. Create a Reference element, including the (optional) identification of the data object, any (optional) transform elements, the digest algorithm and the DigestValue. (Note, it is the canonical form of these references that are signed in 3.1.2 and validated in 3.2.1 .)

3.1.2 Signature Generation

1. Create SignedInfo element with SignatureMethod, CanonicalizationMethod and Reference(s).

2. Canonicalize and then calculate the SignatureValue over SignedInfo based on algorithms specified in SignedInfo.

3. Construct the Signature element that includes SignedInfo, Object(s) (if desired, encoding may be different than that used for signing), KeyInfo (if required), and SignatureValue.

get_google_form

This function will give you a complete HTML page (including the HTTP headers) that you can send to clients to have them redirected to Google.

After all the hi-tec stuff Google wants us to do to parse their request and generate a response, this is where it gets low-tec and messy. We are supposed to give clients a html page that contains a hidden form that uses Javascript to post that form to Google. Ugly, but it works. The form will contain a textarea containing the response xml and a textarea containing the relay state.

Hence the only required argument: the RelayState parameter from the user's GET request

REMARKS

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Coming up with a valid response for a SAML-request is quite tricky. The simplest way to go is to use the xmlsec1 program distributed with the XML Security Library. Google seems to use that program itself. However, I wanted to have a perlish way of creating the response. Testing your computed response is best done against xmlsec1: If your response is stored in the file test.xml, you can simply do:

 xmlsec1 --verify --store-references --store-signatures test.xml > debug.txt

This will give you a file debug.txt with lots of information, most importantly it will give you the canonical xml versions of your response and the 'References' element. If your canonical xml of these two elements isn't exactly like the one in debug.txt, your response will not be valid.

This brings us to another issue: XML-canonicalization. There are currently two modules on CPAN that promise to do the work for you: XML::CanonicalizeXML and XML::Canonical. Both can be used with Google::SAML::Response, however the default is to use the former because it is much easier to install. However, the latter's interface is much cleaner and Perl-like than the interface of the former.

XML::Canonical uses XML::GDOME which has a Makefile.PL that begs to be hacked because it insists on using the version of gdome that was available when Makefile.PL was written (2003) and then it still doesn't install without force. XML::CanonicalizeXML is much easier to install, you just have to have the libxml development files installed so it will compile.

TODO

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* Add support for encrypted keys

SOURCE CODE

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This module is part of a github repository:

  http://github.com/mannih/cpan

AUTHOR

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Manni Heumann (saml at lxxi dot org)

LICENSE

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Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Manni Heumann. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


Google-SAML-Response documentation Contained in the Google-SAML-Response distribution.
#  Copyright (c) 2010 Manni Heumann. All rights reserved.
#
#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
#  modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
#

package Google::SAML::Response;

use strict;
use warnings;

use Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA;
use MIME::Base64;
use Digest::SHA qw/ sha1 /;
use Date::Format;
use Compress::Zlib;
use Google::SAML::Request;
use Carp;


our $VERSION = '0.10';


sub new {
    my $class = shift;

    my $params = shift;
    my $self = {};

    foreach my $required ( qw/ request key login / ) {
        if ( exists $params->{ $required } ) {
            $self->{ $required } = $params->{ $required };
        }
        else {
            confess "You need to provide the $required parameter!";
        }
    }

    bless $self, $class;

    my $request = Google::SAML::Request->new_from_string( $self->{request} );

    if ( $request && $self->_load_key() ) {
        $self->{ service_url }   = $request->AssertionConsumerServiceURL();
        $self->{ request_id }    = $request->ID();
        $self->{ ttl }           = ( exists $params->{ ttl } ) ? $params->{ ttl } : 60*2;
        $self->{ canonicalizer } = exists $params->{ canonicalizer } 
                                    ? $params->{ canonicalizer } 
                                    : 'XML::CanonicalizeXML';

        return $self;
    }
    else {
        return;
    }

}


sub _load_dsa_key {
    my $self = shift;
    my $key_text = shift;

    eval {
        require Crypt::OpenSSL::DSA;
    };

    confess "Crypt::OpenSSL::DSA needs to be installed so that we can handle DSA keys." if $@;

    my $dsa_key = Crypt::OpenSSL::DSA->read_priv_key_str( $key_text );

    if ( $dsa_key ) {
        $self->{ key_obj } = $dsa_key;
        my $g = encode_base64( $dsa_key->get_g(), '' );
        my $p = encode_base64( $dsa_key->get_p(), '' );
        my $q = encode_base64( $dsa_key->get_q(), '' );
        my $y = encode_base64( $dsa_key->get_pub_key(), '' );

        $self->{KeyInfo} = "<KeyInfo><KeyValue><DSAKeyValue><P>$p</P><Q>$q</Q><G>$g</G><Y>$y</Y></DSAKeyValue></KeyValue></KeyInfo>";
        $self->{key_type} = 'dsa';
    }
    else {
        confess "did not get a new Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA object";
    }
}


sub _load_rsa_key {
    my $self = shift;
    my $key_text = shift;

    my $rsaKey = Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA->new_private_key( $key_text );

    if ( $rsaKey ) {
        $rsaKey->use_pkcs1_padding();
        $self->{ key_obj } = $rsaKey;

        my $bigNum = ( $rsaKey->get_key_parameters() )[1];
        my $bin = $bigNum->to_bin();
        my $exp = encode_base64( $bin, '' );

        $bigNum = ( $rsaKey->get_key_parameters() )[0];
        $bin = $bigNum->to_bin();
        my $mod = encode_base64( $bin, '' );
        $self->{KeyInfo} = "<KeyInfo><KeyValue><RSAKeyValue><Modulus>$mod</Modulus><Exponent>$exp</Exponent></RSAKeyValue></KeyValue></KeyInfo>";
        $self->{key_type} = 'rsa';
    }
    else {
        confess "did not get a new Crypt::OpenSSL::RSA object";
    }
}


sub _load_key {
    my $self = shift;
    my $file = $self->{ key };

    if ( open my $KEY, '<', $file ) {
        my $text = '';
        local $/ = undef;
        $text = <$KEY>;
        close $KEY;

        if ( $text =~ m/BEGIN ([DR]SA) PRIVATE KEY/ ) {
            my $key_used = $1;

            if ( $key_used eq 'RSA' ) {
                $self->_load_rsa_key( $text );
            }
            else {
                $self->_load_dsa_key( $text );
            }

            return 1;
        }
        else {
            confess "Could not detect type of key $file.";
        }
    }
    else {
        confess "Could not load key $file: $!";
    }

    return;
}


sub get_response_xml {
    my $self = shift;

    # This is the xml response without any signatures or digests:
    my $xml           = $self->_response_xml();

    # We now calculate the SHA1 digest of the canoncial response xml
    my $canonical     = $self->_canonicalize_xml( $xml );

    my $bin_digest    = sha1( $canonical );
    my $digest        = encode_base64( $bin_digest, '' );

    # Create a xml fragment containing the digest:
    my $digest_xml    = $self->_reference_xml( $digest );

    # create a xml fragment consisting of the SignedInfo element
    my $signed_info   = $self->_signedinfo_xml( $digest_xml );

    # We now calculate a signature over the canonical SignedInfo element

    $canonical        = $self->_canonicalize_xml( $signed_info );
    my $signature;

    if ( $self->{ key_type } eq 'dsa' ) {
        my $sig = $self->{ key_obj }->do_sign( sha1( $canonical ) );
        $signature = encode_base64( $sig->get_r . $sig->get_s );
    }
    else {
        my $bin_signature = $self->{key_obj}->sign( $canonical );
        $signature = encode_base64( $bin_signature, "\n" );
    }

    # With the signature value and the signedinfo element, we create
    # a Signature element:
    my $signature_xml = $self->_signature_xml( $signed_info, $signature );

    # Now insert the signature xml into our response xml
    $xml =~ s/<samlp:Status>/$signature_xml<samlp:Status>/;

    return "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n" . $xml;
}


sub _signature_xml {
    my $self = shift;
    my $signed_info = shift;
    my $signature_value = shift;

    return qq{<Signature xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
                        $signed_info
                        <SignatureValue>$signature_value</SignatureValue>
                        $self->{KeyInfo}
                </Signature>};
}


sub _signedinfo_xml {
    my $self = shift;
    my $digest_xml = shift;

    return qq{<SignedInfo xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol" xmlns:xenc="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#">
                                <CanonicalizationMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-c14n-20010315#WithComments" />
                                <SignatureMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#$self->{key_type}-sha1" />
                                $digest_xml
                        </SignedInfo>};
}


sub _reference_xml {
    my $self = shift;
    my $digest = shift;

    return qq{<Reference URI="">
                                                <Transforms>
                                                        <Transform Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature" />
                                                </Transforms>
                                                <DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
                                                <DigestValue>$digest</DigestValue>
                                        </Reference>};
}


sub _canonicalize_xml {
    my $self = shift;
    my $xml  = shift;

    if ( $self->{canonicalizer} eq 'XML::Canonical' ) {
        require XML::Canonical;
        my $xmlcanon = XML::Canonical->new( comments => 1 );
        return $xmlcanon->canonicalize_string( $xml );
    }
    elsif ( $self->{ canonicalizer } eq 'XML::CanonicalizeXML' ) {
        require XML::CanonicalizeXML;
        my $xpath = '<XPath>(//. | //@* | //namespace::*)</XPath>';
        return XML::CanonicalizeXML::canonicalize( $xml, $xpath, [], 0, 0 );
    }
    else {
        confess "Unknown XML canonicalizer module.";
    }
}


sub _response_xml {
    my $self = shift;

    # A 160-bit string containing a set of randomly generated characters.
    # The ID MUST start with a character
    my $response_id   = sprintf 'GOSAML0d%04d', time, rand(10000);

    # A timestamp indicating the date and time that the SAML response was generated
    # Bsp: 2006-08-17T10:05:29Z
    # All SAML time values have the type xs:dateTime, which is built in to the W3C XML Schema Datatypes
    # specification [Schema2], and MUST be expressed in UTC form, with no time zone component.
    my $issue_instant = time2str( "%Y-%m-%dT%XZ", time, 'UTC' );

    # A 160-bit string containing a set of randomly generated characters.
    my $assertion_id  = sprintf 'GOSAML%010d%04d', time, rand(10000);

    # The acs url
    my $assertion_url = $self->{service_url};

    # The username for the authenticated user.
    my $username      = $self->{login};

    # A timestamp identifying the date and time after which the SAML response is deemed invalid.
    my $best_before   = time2str( "%Y-%m-%dT%XZ", time + $self->{ttl}, 'UTC' );

    # A timestamp indicating the date and time that you authenticated the user.
    my $authn_instant = $issue_instant;

    my $request_id    = $self->{ request_id };

    return
        qq{<samlp:Response xmlns="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:assertion" xmlns:samlp="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:protocol" xmlns:xenc="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#" ID="$response_id" IssueInstant="$issue_instant" Version="2.0">
                <samlp:Status>
                      <samlp:StatusCode Value="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Success"></samlp:StatusCode>
                </samlp:Status>
                <Assertion ID="$assertion_id" IssueInstant="$issue_instant" Version="2.0">
                      <Issuer>https://www.opensaml.org/IDP</Issuer>
                      <Subject>
                            <NameID Format="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:1.1:nameid-format:emailAddress">$username</NameID>
                            <SubjectConfirmation Method="urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:cm:bearer">
                                  <SubjectConfirmationData
                                        Recipient="$assertion_url"
                                        NotOnOrAfter="$best_before"
                                        InResponseTo="$request_id"
                                  />
                            </SubjectConfirmation>
                      </Subject>
                      <Conditions NotBefore="$issue_instant" NotOnOrAfter="$best_before">
                          <AudienceRestriction>
                              <Audience>$assertion_url</Audience>
                          </AudienceRestriction>
                      </Conditions>
                      <AuthnStatement AuthnInstant="$authn_instant">
                            <AuthnContext>
                                  <AuthnContextClassRef>urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:Password</AuthnContextClassRef>
                            </AuthnContext>
                      </AuthnStatement>
                </Assertion>
        </samlp:Response>
};
}


sub get_google_form {
    my $self = shift;
    my $rs   = shift;

    my $url  = $self->{service_url};

    my $output = "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    $output .= "<html><head></head><body onload='javascript:document.acsForm.submit()'>\n";

    my $xml = $self->get_response_xml();

    $output .= qq|
                <div style="display: none;">
                <form name="acsForm" action="$url" method="post">
                        <textarea name="SAMLResponse">$xml</textarea>
                        <textarea name="RelayState">$rs</textarea>
                        <input type="submit" value="Submit SAML Response" />
                </form>
                </div>
        |;

    $output .= "</body></html>\n";

    return $output;
}




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