XML Key Information

XML Key Information Service Specification

X-KISS characterizes a protocol for a reliance service. It helps in managing the public-key information contained in documents that confirm to the XML signature specification. The basic objective of this protocol design is that relieving the XML programmers from the complex task of writing the code to process the XML signature ds:KeyInfo element. Essentially PKI may be ased upon a different specification such as X.509, the international standard for public-key certificates or Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the widely available public key encryption system. Any trust policy can be utilized along with the XML signature specification.

When ever, a person is signing a document it is not necessary to specify any key information except that the value for the element . The value includes the key name, certificate name, key identifier and so on. Otherwise a link may be provided to a location which contains the required KeyInfo details.