XML Signature features
- Uses XML syntax to represent a signature over digital content (and XML
content in particular)
- Signature types:
- detached: over data external to the signature document
- enveloped: signature within content being signed
- enveloping: content within signature being signed
- Meets requirement of signing portions of documents via Transforms:
processing the document before signing (e.g. XPath, etc.)
- Can be used to specify a signature over a list of resources (one or
more parts of a document or different documents)
