The Web's leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization's push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.

Watch your Web Services: the official XML Encryption Syntax and Processing standard can be broken. So say two researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, who have demonstrated a practical ...

In what could be a major advance to protect the integrity of documents on the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has endorsed a series of encryption standards for XML documents. The W3C ...

Researchers last week described a cipher-block chaining (CBC) attack via the XML Encryption standard that could compromise secure online transactions. "The attack method "poses a serious and truly ...

Web services are here to stay, but if you are like most software developers, you worry about the plaintext SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) messages being exchanged over the Web. Web services ...

The Web's leading standards group proposed two recommendations for encrypting XML data and documents, a key development in the organization's push to standardize technologies crucial to Web services.