When a standard is deployed as openly as XML, businesses are bound to have security concerns. The need to control content's distribution and ensure its integrity keeps many companies from deploying XML without an extranet. Proposed standards will address security . . .
When a standard is deployed as openly as XML, businesses are bound to have security concerns. The need to control content's distribution and ensure its integrity keeps many companies from deploying XML without an extranet. Proposed standards will address security issues, and these standards are being further developed to allow for granular control over XML content. This article introduces and explains five proposed XML standards that deal with security issues.

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 encrypt portions of a document, with the idea that only sensitive information needs to be protected. Encrypting portions of a document with different keys would allow you to distribute the same XML document to various recipients, but the recipients would only be able to decrypt the parts relevant to them.

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