The exchange and storage of information has emerged as a crucial aspect of technological, economic and human progress in today's society. Computer aided systems help to administer this information ...

The premier Web standards body on Thursday recommended a way of signing documents using XML, calling its new digital signature guidelines a key tool for Web services infrastructure. The World Wide Web ...

That is, with XML Signature, not only can you sign arbitrary digital content as a whole, but you can also sign just specific parts of XML documents. This proves useful when parts of XML documents can ...

Security is important for any distributed computing environment. But, security is becoming even more important for Web services due to the following reasons: The boundary of interaction between ...

The rise of internetworking was enabled by the use of network-level security technologies such as Secure Sockets Layer, IPsec and firewall filtering to create a secure perimeter around an enterprise ...

The Government Printing Office posted information in a format to allow manipulation of the data while it looks for a way to digitally sign the documents to indicate they have not been altered. The ...

XML Web services are not secure. This should come as no surprise as any time you expose any kind of service to the ‘Net there’s a real risk that someone, somewhere will find a hole and exploit it to ...

Microsoft’s Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) has garnered a lot of attention, especially since it was submitted to the W3C as a possible standard for XML-based communication among object-oriented ...

Nothing has done more to erode the enterprise security perimeter than the rise of XML Web services. Designed to bypass the existing enterprise Internet Protocol (IP)-based network security ...