- Describe how to use XML to represent a digitally encrypted Web
resources including XML, and portions thereof. Presently limited to
elements and content (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.