XML Acronyms Dictionary XML Key Management SpecificationXKMS specifies protocols for distributing and registering public keys, suitable for use in conjunction with the proposed standard for XML Signature developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and an anticipated companion standard for XML encr [..]

(XML Key Management Service) is a proposed standard for the enrollment and subsequent management of keys. Rather than integrating complicated PKI key management functionality into applications through ‘toolkits’, XKMS enables the outsourcing of this PKI functionality to remote services. The application developer need only know how to create/process [..]