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Re: The sky is falling! XML's dirty secret! Go back! It's a t


falling anywhere
Seairth Jacobs wrote:
> 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?

Shipping unencrypted sensitive information from anywhere to anywhere 
over any medium whatsoever is egregiously stupid.  Fortunately, the 
infrastructure is well-supplied with tools to support secure encrypted 
transmission of anything from anywhere to anywhere; whether the anything 
is XML or not is purely orthogonal.

(Now there's enough of a business case for doing partial encryption 
(i.e. of particular elements) in XML that there's a W3C WG and so on - 
it always seemed questionable to me but I assume I just don't understand 
their apps.)  But the reason for doing this has nothing to do whether 
XML is particularly vulnerable to theft when transmitted unencrypted... 
if I'm a bad guy I'll be just as happy with a TIFF image of a credit 
card charge slip... -Tim


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