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.

Compared to XML Signature, XML Encryption is relatively straightforward. You select some nodes to encrypt, and that's basically it. You decrypt the ciphertext with the correct key, and you retrieve ...

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 ...

Besides being able to use standard methods of encryption when transmitting XML documents, the W3C and IETF propose a standard for encrypting the XML data and tags within a document. This would let you ...

When a standard is deployed as openly as XML, businesses are bound to have security concerns. This article introduces and explains five proposed XML standards that deal with security issues. Besides ...

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forum Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Crosscheck Networks and a leader in XML Security, today announced that it has been issued an industry-first patent for its ...

To guarantee high data security, encryption must be unbreakable while the data remains rapidly and easily readable. A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information has now been ...

SQL Server 2005's engine-based, data-encryption functions protect confidential information from unauthorized access and disclosure, and offer native key management as a bonus. Reports of more than 2 ...