Introduction
The extraordinary growth of the World Wide Web has been fueled by the ability it gives authors to easily and cheaply distribute electronic documents to an international audience. As Web documents have become larger and more complex, however, Web content providers have begun to experience the limitations of a medium that does not provide the extensibility, structure, and data checking needed for large-scale commercial publishing. The ability of Java applets to embed powerful data manipulation capabilities in Web clients makes even clearer
XML Encryption provides end-to-end security for applications that require secure exchange of structured data. XML itself is the most popular technology for structuring data, and therefore XML-based encryption is the natural way to handle complex requirements for security in data interchange applications. Here in part 1 of this two-part series, Bilal explains how XML and security are proposed to be integrated into the W3C's Working Draft for XML Encryption.
Currently, Transport Layer Security (TLS) is the de facto standard for secure communication over
More and more devices including PCs, PDAs, mobile phones, and various kinds of appliances are being connected to the network and many people are trying to use them for network applications such as e-commerce. One of the most important requirements for a network application is the security of data exchanged through the network.
XML has been widely accepted as a standard format for data exchange in Internet and security mechanisms for XML documents and messages must be provided in the first place. The security mechanisms have to be implemented in Java