XML Security Suite: Increasing the Security of E-Business

By Doug Tidwell
2005-05-18

The XML Security Suite

The XML Security Suite provides several important functions:

XML signatures. This implementation is based on the XML-Signature Core Syntax and Processing specification currently being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). (See Resources.)
An implementation of the W3C's Canonical XML working draft. (See Resources.)
Element-level encryption.

The following sections discuss each of these functions and how they contribute to Web security.

Tutorial Pages:
» A brief overview of Web security
» Creating a secure session
» The XML Security Suite
» XML Signatures
» About the sample programs
» Creating a certificate
» Signing an internal XML resource
» Signing an external XML resource
» Signing a non-XML resource
» Verifying a digital signature
» The joys of nonrepudiability
» Canonical XML
» Element-level encryption
» Other utilities
» Summary
» Resources

First published by IBM DeveloperWorks

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