Everything about XML Signature

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: XML SignatureA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Foundations and Practice of SecurityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Introduction to XML Encryption and XML SignatureCited 13 times
4. Go sideways: XML EncryptionA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: XMLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Introduction to XML Encryption and XML Signature

  Berin Lautenbach · 2004 · Information Security Technical Report · 13 citations

• XML Encryption and Signature for Securing Web Services

  Iehab ALRassan · 2020 · International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology · 3 citations

• A survey of multi-signature schemes for XML documents

  Jatin Arora, Ketti Ramchandran Ramkumar, Pavneet Kaur · 2022 · International Journal of Cloud Computing · 3 citations

• Implementation an XML Multi-Signature Scheme for XML Data Authentication

  Bao Long Liu, Hua Chen, Yi Guo · 2011 · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2 citations

• Choosing Optimal Platform to Host Web Services with XML Signature and XML Encryption

  Sasko Ristov -, Marjan Gusev - · 2013 · Journal of Next Generation Information Technology · 2 citations

• New XML Signature Scheme That is Resistant to Some Attacks

  Gerard Wawrzyniak, Imed El Fray · 2020 · IEEE Access · 2 citations

• XML Signature Wrapping Angriffe

  Nils Gruschka, Meiko Jensen, Luigi Lo Iacono · 2009 · Datenschutz und Datensicherheit - DuD · 1 citations

• Spatial Signature Method (SSM) Against XML Signature Wrapping Attacks

  Madihah Mohd Saudi, Nurzi Juana Mohd Zaizi, Khaled Juma Ahmed Sweese · 2019 · MATEC Web of Conferences · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Foundations and Practice of SecurityJoaquin Garcia-Alfaro · 2012
• The web application hacker's handbookDafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto · 2007
• RESTful Java with JAXRS 20Bill Burke · 2013
• Secure XMLDonald Eastlake, Donald E. Eastlake · 2002
• A practical guide to testing wireless smartphone applicationsJulian Harty · 2009
• Xml-Signature Syntax and ProcessingMark Bartel · 2000
• Securing Web Services with WS-Security: Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML EncryptionJothy Rosenberg · 2005
• Securing Web Services with WS-SecurityJothy Rosenberg, David Remy · 2004

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