XML Security & XML Signature

  What is XML Signature?

XML Signature is a method of associating a key with referenced data by using XML to represent.

  What can it do?

XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere.

  Specification

XML-Signature Syntax and Processing
[Current Version: W3C Candidate Recommendation 19-April-2001] (Local Download)

  Knowledge Background

• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

• Cryptography

• DTD

• XML Namespace

• XML Schema

• XML Pointer

• Base64 Encode and Decode

• XPath

• XSLT

• Canonical XML

• Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)

• More....

  References & Links

XML Signature Tutorial Slide [Online][StarOffice][PDF]
XML Signature Advanced Tutorial [Online][StarOffice][PDF]

ZVON.org [ Excellent Tutorial Website on XML Technique ]
XML Security Page
Intro to XML signature[ Good! ]

  Application & Implement

IBM AlphaWorks XML SecuritySuite4j
IAIK IXSIL XML Signature
Baltimore KeyTools XML
Itochu CTC XML Signature Java Library
NEC XML Signature Software Library
More....

  Download

My XML Signature Java Lib for JDK 1.4 [source code] [zip][385K]
DONE signature_brochure [pdf][178K]
XML Schema [ppt][323K]

  Internet Resource