Re: XMLENC used in SOAP

Merlin,

>To progress the XML encryption spec we need a report of
>satisfaction in an application context. To this end, I
>can report that we have successfully combined the use of
>XML encryption and XML digital signatures in the context
>of a SOAP-based application (XKMS 2 over WSS, each in their
>current non-standard form). Performance is fine; cryptographic
>processing (sign/encrypt) of simple messages takes a few tens
>of milliseconds on my desktop machine.

As you know, WS-Security [1] addresses this case and its implementation has
been included in WSTK [2], where it is implemented as AXIS handlers.  But
anyway, I'm looking forward to seeing your report.

[1] http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-secure
[2] http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/webservicestoolkit

Thanks,
Takeshi IMAMURA
Tokyo Research Laboratory
IBM Research
imamu@jp.ibm.com

Received on Saturday, 14 September 2002 23:10:59 UTC