Fwd: XML Security 1.1 PR drafts and Notes published

[MURATA Makoto]

This has a lot to do with our OPC related DRs such as
DR 11-0029, DR 11-0030, and DR 11-0031.

Regards,
Makoto
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From:  <Frederick.Hirsch at nokia.com>
Date: 2013/1/25
Subject: XML Security 1.1 PR drafts and Notes published
To: public-xmlsec at w3.org
Cc: Frederick.Hirsch at nokia.com, Art.Barstow at nokia.com, marcosscaceres at gmail.com


The XML Encryption 1.1, XML Signature 1.1 and XML Signature Property
PR drafts have been published today, as well as the new and updated
W3C Working Group Notes.

Thanks everyone for your work on this. I have updated the XML Security
home page news section accordingly.

>From the W3C News [1]:

[A] Call for Review: XML Signature 1.1, XML Encryption 1.1, XML
Signature Properties Proposed Recommendations Published

(1) XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-xmldsig-core1-20130124/

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.
Comments are welcome through 25 February.

(2) XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-xmlenc-core1-20130124/

This document specifies a process for encrypting data and representing
the result in XML. The data may be in a variety of formats, including
octet streams and other unstructured data, or structured data formats
such as XML documents, an XML element, or XML element content. The
result of encrypting data is an XML Encryption element that contains
or references the cipher data. Comments are welcome through 25
February.

(3) XML Signature Properties ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-xmldsig-properties-20130124/

This document outlines proposed standard XML Signature Properties
syntax and processing rules and an associated namespace for these
properties. The intent is these can be composed with any version of
XML Signature using the XML SignatureProperties element. These
properties are intended to meet code signing requirements. Comments
are welcome through 25 February.

[B] The group also published six Working Group Notes:

(1)  Functional Explanation of Changes in XML Encryption 1.1 ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-xmlenc-core1-explain-20130124/

provides a summary of non-editorial changes in XML Encryption 1.1 from
the XML Encryption Recommendation.

(2) XML Security 1.1 Requirements and Design Considerations ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-xmlsec-reqs-20130124/

summarizes scenarios, design decisions, and requirements for the XML
Signature and Canonical XML specifications, to guide ongoing W3C work
to revise these specifications.

(3) XML Security Algorithm Cross-Reference ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-xmlsec-algorithms-20130124/

summarizes XML Security algorithm URI identifiers and the
specifications associated with them

(4) XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20130124/

 specifies an XML syntax and processing rules for generic hybrid
ciphers and key encapsulation mechanisms and reserves identifiers for
algorithms.

(5) XML Security RELAX NG Schemas ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-xmlsec-rngschema-20130124/

provides non-normative RELAX NG schemas in the compact syntax as well
as the XML syntax.

(6)  XML Signature Best Practices ;
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-xmldsig-bestpractices-20130124/

collects best practices for implementers and users of the XML
Signature specification, some of which to improve security and
mitigate attacks.

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch, Nokia
Chair XML Security WG

[1] http://www.w3.org/News/2013#entry-9692







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Makoto