Today eBusiness plays a key role in the economy. Since many organizations are suffering from security problems such as computer viruses and security breaches, computer security has become a crucial concern for eBusiness. XML has already established itself in eBusiness applications, and the XML-compliant languages play an important role in almost all eBusiness application systems and middleware.

Now a days researchers of  XML Security trying to solve problems faced by users who try to develop XML-based applications, Web services, and security middleware for XML. It ranges from specific security features, such as digital signatures and element-wise encryption and access control of XML documents, to XML-based infrastructure, such as Web services and XML databases. Since many security features for XML have already been standardized, experimental evaluations of these standards is one of the important topics to be adressed.

Following topics are of deep interest in XML security technology.

• XML digital signatures
• XML encryption
• XML access control
• XML-based key management
• XML-based messaging
• XML-based security assertions
• XML database security
• Security policy languages for XML
• Architecture of XML security
• Security for Web services
• Experimental studies of above topics.

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