1. Towards an XML format for time-stamps
- Author
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Ana I. González-Tablas, Karel Wouters, Bart Preneel, and Arturo Ribagorda
- Subjects
World Wide Web ,XML framework ,XML Encryption ,XML Protocol ,XML Schema Editor ,Computer science ,Efficient XML Interchange ,Streaming XML ,ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING ,XML Signature ,XML validation ,computer.file_format ,computer - Abstract
XML has become a well-established format for information exchange. Several formats have been defined to secure XML data, such as XML Digital Signatures, XML Encryption and XKMS. In recent work by ETSI on XML digital signatures conforming to European legislation, time-stamps play a key role for qualified digital signatures. Some ASN.1-based formats for time-stamp protocols have been defined within IETF and ISO/IEC. In this paper, we investigate how the wide range of time-stamping protocols in the literature can be embedded into a single XML format; our work is based on existing standardisation efforts. We present our ideas in the form of a concrete XML structure, which can be used as the starting point to develop a mature XML-based time-stamping protocol.
- Published
- 2002