Re: [xml] encryption/signature question

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 01:38:56PM -0500, tlewis mindspring com wrote:
> Is anyone working on signing and/or encrypting XML documents using libxml?

  Seems so:
    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2001-November/msg00007.html

> I have an application where I need to distribute authenticated (signed)
> xml documents, and confidentiality (encryption) will be useful for some
> users.  If anyone is working on implemting the w3c crypto standards,
> or some other suitable cryptosystem, then I would like the chance to
> take a look at your work.

  Unfortunately it seems they are not interested in opening the code
I don't think implementing canonical XML would be difficult with the
existing framework. Then XML DSig is basically a bit of XPath glue
mixed with implementation of a set of crypto. But I don't have the time
to pursue this, though I would appreciate submissions :-)

Daniel

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