- From: Christian Geuer-Pollmann <geuer-pollmann@nue.et-inf.uni-siegen.de>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 06:43:14 +0200
- To: Tom Gindin <tgindin@us.ibm.com>, Joseph Ashwood <ashwood@msn.com>
- cc: xml-encryption@w3.org
--On Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2002 07:53 -0400 Tom Gindin <tgindin@us.ibm.com> wrote: > The legacy that matters in this case consists of legacy crypto libraries since > obviously there's no legacy of XML-encrypted documents. DES is also > faster than 3DES, of course, but that's not a very strong reason. No, that's not the only reason. Of course, nobody will start to encrypt XML today using DES. But -- XML Encryption is also specified as a Key Management container: If you have many files somewhere, all encrypted under DES, and you don't want/can to decrypt/reencrypt all that stuff to upgrade to a stronger algorithm but you want a key management that's nice, you could use XML Encryptions DataReference to create XML Documents which contain the data encryption key as well as the URI of the data file. Regards, Christian
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