Listing 4: DetachedDigitalSignature.java
package xmlsignatures;

import javax.xml.crypto.dsig.*;
import javax.xml.crypto.dsig.spec.*;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.security.*;
import javax.xml.crypto.dsig.dom.DOMSignContext;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.crypto.dsig.keyinfo.*;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class DetachedDigitalSignature {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
  
        //Create a XMLSigantureFactory object
	XMLSignatureFactory xmlSignatureFactory =
	 XMLSignatureFactory.getInstance("DOM");

        //Create the digest method
        DigestMethod digestMethod =
		 xmlSignatureFactory.newDigestMethod
		 (DigestMethod.SHA1, null);
                	       
        //Create the Reference object
        Reference reference = 
		xmlSignatureFactory.newReference(
            "http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet",  
            digestMethod);
        List < Reference >  
		referenceList = 
		new ArrayList < Reference >  () ; 
        referenceList.add(reference);
        
        //Create the canonicalization method
        CanonicalizationMethod canonicalizationMethod =
		 xmlSignatureFactory.newCanonicalizationMethod(
             CanonicalizationMethod.INCLUSIVE, 
			 (C14NMethodParameterSpec)null);
        
        //Create the signature method
        SignatureMethod signatureMethod = 
		xmlSignatureFactory.newSignatureMethod
		(SignatureMethod.RSA_SHA1, null);
        
        //Create the SignedInfo object
        SignedInfo signedInfo = 
		xmlSignatureFactory.newSignedInfo
		(canonicalizationMethod, signatureMethod, 
		referenceList, null); 
        
	//Create a KeyPairGenerator with 512 key size
        KeyPairGenerator keyPairGenerator = 
		KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA");
        keyPairGenerator.initialize(512);
        
        //Create a KeyPair, based on the above KeyPairGenerator
        KeyPair keyPair = keyPairGenerator.generateKeyPair();

        //Create a KeyInfoFactory
        KeyInfoFactory keyInfoFactory = 
		xmlSignatureFactory.getKeyInfoFactory();
        
        //Create a KeyValue, based on the above KeyInfoFactory
        KeyValue keyValue = 
		keyInfoFactory.newKeyValue(keyPair.getPublic());
        List < KeyValue >  keyvalueList = 
		new ArrayList < KeyValue >  () ; 
        keyvalueList.add(keyValue);
       
        //Create a KeyInfo, based on the above KeyValue
        KeyInfo keyInfo = 
		keyInfoFactory.newKeyInfo(keyvalueList);
        
        //Create a classic DOM factory instance 
		(DocumentBuilderFactory)
        DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory =
		 DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        
        //Make namespace aware
        documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        
        //Create a DocumentBuilder
        DocumentBuilder documentBuilder =
		 documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
        
        //Create a Document
        Document document = documentBuilder.newDocument();
        
        //Create a DOMSignContext
        DOMSignContext domSignContext = 
		new DOMSignContext(keyPair.getPrivate(), document);

        //Finally, create the XMLSignature
        XMLSignature xmlSignature =
		xmlSignatureFactory.newXMLSignature
		(signedInfo,keyInfo);
        
        //Sign the document
        xmlSignature.sign(domSignContext);
        
        //Write the resulted document
        OutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream 
                ("C://JavaApplications//XMLDigitalSiganture
//XMLSignatures//XMLs//outDetached.xml");
        
        //Create a TransformerFactory
        TransformerFactory transformerFactory = 
		TransformerFactory.newInstance();
        
        //Create a Tranformer
        Transformer transformer = 
		transformerFactory.newTransformer();
        
        //Write the result into the out.xml document
        transformer.transform(new DOMSource(document), 
		new StreamResult(outputStream));
    }
}

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