- Describe how to use XML to represent a digitally encrypted Web
resources including XML, and portions thereof. Presently limited to
elements (not attribute values).
- Provide for the separation of encryption
information from encrypted data, and support reference mechanisms
for addressing encryption information from encrypted data sections
and vice versa.
- Provide for super-encryption (capable of encrypting XML with
portions already encrypted)
- Provide for the secure communication of a session key for
subsequent (efficient) communication.