The Open Information Science Journal

2009, 2 : 10-17
Published online 2009 February 26. DOI: 10.2174/1874947X00902010010
Publisher ID: TOISCIJ-2-10

XML Security in Certificate Management – XML Certificator

Joan Lu and Nathan Cripps
School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, UK.

ABSTRACT

The trend of rapid growing use of XML format in data/document management system reveals that security measures should be urgently considered into next generation’s data/document systems. This paper presents a new certificate management system developed on the basis of XML security mechanisms. The system is supported by the theories of XML security as well as Object oriented technology and database. Finally it has been successfully implemented in using C#, SQL, XML signature and XML encryption. An implementation metrics is evidently presented.