Posts Tagged ‘xml

22Feb

About RSS as a format

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Blogging

Welcome back!There’s a new set of discussions around the evolution of RSS.
Just a quick comment from the consumer side: Are you guys aware of what you’re doing at all? There may be a reason to have a well-designed syndication format, but please tell me why I need to care? So far, what you have done [...]

17Feb

Why XML signatures suck

Posted by Frank Koehntopp as Security

This points to a well written analysis on what’s wrong with XML signatures.
“Imagine how this would end up in court: “Your honour,
although the plaintiff claims we signed this, we have 39 differently-
canonicalised forms that show we didn’t, 18 different namespace types that
prove the plaintiff is in fact at fault and not us, 7 applications of [...]


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