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• To: 'Seairth Jacobs' <seairth@s...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: The sky is falling! XML's dirty secret! Go back! It's a trap!
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 15:37:59 -0500

Raw XML laying around is a static database with all the signposts 
one needs to get information from it.  One presumes that isn't what 
the article is talking about.   Encrypted XML might also have signposts 
that enable it to be easier to crack.  I don't know but that would 
be what one might want to explore.

But the article is basically an ad for gear and software.  Taken 
at that level, it is just FUD.   If there are problems with encrypting 
XML that make it easier to crack, then there is a problem.  I don't 
know and this isn't my field of expertise.   

Ask the crackers.

len

From: Seairth Jacobs [mailto:seairth@s...]


Okay, maybe I am slow to see what's wrong here, but I don't see what's wrong
here.  I have questions about the security solution presented, but isn't the
problem itself legitimate?  If it isn't, would someone be kind enough to
educate me why a self-describing data file is not an easier target for data
theft?

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