May I introduce myself...

Hi all,

my name is Meiko Jensen (pronounced like Michael, but with "o" instead
of "l"), I'm working at the Chair for Network and Data Security at the
Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) in Germany. By now I'm doing my Ph.D.
thesis on the topic of security in service-oriented architectures, with
a particular focus on applications of cryptology to Web Services. In
this field, we lately published some papers on attacks against signed
SOAP messages (mainly signature wrapping issues) and also on
streamability and performance optimization of XML Signature and XML
Encryption implementations.

Hence, I'll try to support the ongoing efforts regarding stream-based
application and verification of XML Signatures, and also try to provide
solutions to the issues we discovered (e.g. the namespace injection stuff).

Being too late for the 1.1 drafts (as far as I understood), I'll focus
on the 2.0 versions of XML Signature and Canonical XML, and on the best
practices documents.

I hope to be helpful in terms of security analysis, providing best
practices against attacks and misconfigurations. Potentially, we can
also contribute basic reference implementations (being a university, we
sometimes manage to attract clever students for doing their master
thesis on such implementations. Maybe I can find one...).

Best regards from Germany

Meiko

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Dipl.-Inf. Meiko Jensen
Chair for Network and Data Security 
Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security 
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
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Universitätsstr. 150, Geb. IC 4/150
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Received on Tuesday, 2 March 2010 16:47:36 UTC