Matthias Wimmer wrote:

But still I keep saying that the protocol we are looking for is XML
Signature and XML Encryption, that have been defined by the W3C.
http://www.w3.org/Signature/
http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
This are standards specially made to sign and encrypt XML data, so it is
exactly what we need. And even while I asked on the standards JID, nobody
could yet tell me, what would be a problem with this standards.

FWIW, Peter Guttmann has some piquant things to say about xmlenc/xmldsig here:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/xmlsec.txt

Though he also thinks that RFC 3923 was a great idea, so YMMV...

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