Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
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...
/psa
I always considered 3923 a pretty decent idea since it was practical ...
xml security related specs have always been a mess to implement (reminds
me a lot of the SOAP bloat).
Not sure how we will do PFS with 3923 easily enough though ... unless I
am missing something. I am yet to go through 136 and associated specs,
so will reserve comments for the conf.
Regards,
Mridul
