An XML Digital Signature for Internet e-business Applications

摘要

Presently, many companies doing B2B e-business on the Internet have suffered difficulties to extend their e-market and to participate in other markets since it is impossible for their own e-business systems to interoperate with other e-business systems in other e-markets. To resolve the non-interoperability of the e-business applications, the e-commerce common framework specifications such as eCo, ebXML have been made by e-commerce software vendors and user companies. The specifications have adopted the XML technology to exchange business documents between e-business applications. So, the XML digital signature for XML-based e-business systems is necessary. In this paper, we describe a method to design and implement an XML digital signature that 'provides integrity of the business document, authentication of trading partner and non-repudiation services, which are necessary for e-business. The XML digital signature has been implemented according to the XML digital signature syntax and processing specification of the IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group.