Abstract
This document expands and updates the list of URIs specified in RFC
4051 and intended for use with XML Digital Signatures, Encryption,
Canonicalization, and Key Management. These URIs identify algorithms
and types of information. This document obsoletes RFC 4051.
1. Introduction
XML Digital Signatures, Canonicalization, and Encryption have been
standardized by the W3C and by the joint IETF/W3C XMLDSIG working
group [W3C]. All of these are now W3C Recommendations and IETF
Informational or Standards Track documents. They are available as
follows:
IETF level W3C REC Topic
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[RFC3275] Draft Std [XMLDSIG] XML Digital Signatures
[RFC3076] Info [CANON] Canonical XML 1.0
- - - - - - [XMLENC] XML Encryption
[RFC3741] Info [XCANON] Exclusive XML Canonicalization 1.0
All of these standards and recommendations use URIs [RFC3986] to
identify algorithms and keying information types.
This document is an updated convenient reference list of URIs and
corresponding algorithms in which there is substantial interest.
There have been significant new cryptographic algorithms of interest
to XML security, for some of which the URI is only specified in this
document, added since the previous list [RFC4051], was issued in
2005. This document obsoletes [RFC4051]. All of the URIs appear in
the Section 4 indexes below. Subsections about one of the URIs appear
in Section 2 or 3 only for those URIs added by [RFC4051] or this
document and for Minimal Canoncialization (Section 2.4).
Note that raising XML Digital Signature to Draft Standard [RFC3275]
in the IETF required removal of any algorithms for which there was
not demonstrated interoperability from the Proposed Standard
document. This required removal of the Minimal Canonicalization
algorithm, in which there appears to be continued interest. The URI
for Minimal Canonicalization was included in [RFC4051] and is
included here.
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