This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
links to the most recent version of a document.
For related introductory information, see: Security.
Completed Work
W3C Recommendations have
been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other
W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the
Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation
Track.
Group Notes are not standards and do not
have the same level of W3C endorsement.
Standards
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2008-06-10
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This document specifies XML digital signature processing rules
and syntax. XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer
authentication services for data of any type, whether located
within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere.
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2002-12-10
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This document specifies an XML Signature "decryption transform" that
enables XML Signature applications to distinguish between those XML
Encryption structures that were encrypted before signing (and must not be
decrypted) and those that were encrypted after signing (and must be
decrypted) for the signature to validate.
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2002-11-08
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XML Signature [XML-DSig] recommends a standard
means for specifying information content to be digitally signed and for
representing the resulting digital signatures in XML. Some applications
require the ability to specify a subset of a given XML document as the
information content to be signed. The XML Signature specification meets this
requirement with the XPath transform. However, this transform can be
difficult to implement efficiently with existing technologies. This
specification defines a new XML Signature transform to facilitate the
development of efficient document subsetting implementations that
interoperate under similar performance profiles.
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Group Notes
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2010-02-04
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2009-07-30
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2008-06-10
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This document defines interoperability test cases for
Canonical XML 1.1 [XML-C14N1.1] and
XML Signature Syntax and Processing, Second Edition [XMLDSIG2]. The changes tested include C14N11
handling of attributes in the XML namespace, including xml:id
and xml:base, appropriate C14N11 nodeset to octet stream
transform processing, modifications to RFC 3986 dot segment
processing for C14N11, and RFC 4514 string encoding of
Distinguished Names. The tests include standalone C14N11 tests
as well as tests integrated with XML signature generation and
validation. This document also includes earlier test cases used
in XML Signature [XMLDSIG] for
regression testing.
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2006-12-20
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This technical note describes how to use the XML Digital
Signature Recommendation [XMLDSIG] in a way
consistent with the present (fall 2006) XML environment. In
particular, this note takes into account the recent xml:id Version
1.0 [XMLID] Recommendation, and work in
progress towards a Canonical XML Version 1.1 [C14N11] Recommendation.
This note suggests constraints on the use of XML Signature, and
relies on extension points present in the XML Digital Signature
Recommendation. This note does not override any aspect of that
Recommendation.
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Drafts
Below are draft documents:
Candidate Recommendations, Last Call Drafts, other Working Drafts.
Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track
process. Others may be published as Group Notes or
become obsolete specifications.
Candidate Recommendations
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2011-03-03
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2011-03-03
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2011-03-03
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Generic hybrid ciphers allow for a consistent treatment of
asymmetric ciphers when encrypting data and consist of a key
encapsulation algorithm with associated parameters and a data
encapsulation algorithm with associated parameters. This document
augments XML Encryption Version 1.1 by defining algorithms, XML
types and elements necessary to enable use of generic hybrid
ciphers in XML Security applications.
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Last Call Drafts
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2012-01-05
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This document specifies how the XML Signature 2.0 transform model may be used with XML Encryption 1.1 for CipherReference processing.
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2011-04-21
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XML Signature 2.0 evolves the transform model of XML Signature to enable easier and more efficient implementations of the specification.
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2011-04-21
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This document defines a streamable profile of XPath 1.0 suitable for use with XML Signature 2.0.
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Other Working Drafts
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2012-01-05
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2011-08-30
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This document serves to publish RELAX NG schemas for XML Security specifications, including XML Signature 1.1, and XML Signature Properties.
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2011-08-09
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2011-04-21
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This document outlines use cases, requirements and design choices for XML Security 2.0, specifically Canonical XML 2.0 and XML Signature 2.0. It includes a proposed simplification of the XML Signature Transform mechanism, intended to enhance security, performance, streamability and to ease adoption.
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2011-03-03
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Obsolete Specifications
These specifications have either been superseded by others,
or have been abandoned. They remain available for archival
purposes, but are not intended to be used.
Retired
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1999-10-14
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This document lists the design principles, scope, and
requirements for the XML Digital Signature specification. It
includes requirements as they relate to the signature syntax, data
model, format, cryptographic processing, and external requirements
and coordination.
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1997-06-10
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The vision set out in this document was superseded by the development of the Semantic Web.
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