Help: Business Question on Encryption

Hello Everyone,

I am IT Director at a multinational company and have
been following the group and its progress. I am
excited about the development of this new technology
and am eager to start using this technology for my
company's procurement and back-office enterprise
systems.  Even though my question is from the business
side of XML Encryption and Signatures, watching the
quality of discussions on this group I am hopeful to
get some help from this community.

While the technology needs for XML Encryption (as well
as Signatures) are very well documented and quite
clear, the business "need" is still unclear to me. I
am trying to locate any evidence in form of
study/survey/report done about the business need for
XML Encryption, specifically the element wise
encryption. 

To convince my CEO to devote resources to the project
I need to find data that points towards the fact that
Business/IT managers need such technology and have
plans to implement this technology for their B2B
transactions. If I can show that other business' have
or are going to implement this technology, then the
decision becomes easy. Otherwise my CEO is afraid that
we might just end-up implementing a technology that
might not be used by the partners (the logic being
that other companies should have element-wise
decrypters and signature verifiers on their end to
make sense of the encryption and signing that we do on
our end and vice-versa; more like fax machine theory).

Any help is greatly appreciated.  


Cheers.


John



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Received on Thursday, 7 June 2001 09:50:01 UTC