DSS

Requirements: DSS Use Case Requirements Analysis (.pdf, .doc)
Specification Working Draft: Digital Signature Service Core Protocol and Elements (.pdf, .doc)
Schema Working Draft: oasis-dss-1.0-core-schema-wd-20 (.xsd)
Somewhat Related Paper: Delegated Cryptography, Online Trusted Third Parties, and PKI (.pdf, .html)
(presented at the 1st Annual PKI Research Workshop)

The OASIS Digital Signature Service Technical Committee is designing protocols for signing, verifying, and time-stamping of XML documents and other data. The idea is to perform these operations on servers, thus freeing clients from having to manage private keys, calculate certificate paths, and so on.

Also listed is a paper arguing for the server-based approach vs. client-side PKI.


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