XSign ActiveX XML Signature Component 1.0

XSign ActiveX XML Signature Component 1.0 is professionally designed for secure personal and business transactions. It enables XML digital signatures using certificates over the Internet and intranet. XSign provides excellent data integrity, message and signer authentication and signer verification for all types of data located within the XML document.

As XML becomes a vital component of the emerging electronic business infrastructure, we need trustable, secure XML messages to form the basis of business transactions. One key to enabling secure transactions is the concept of a digital signature, ensuring the integrity and authenticity of origin for business documents. XML Signature is an evolving standard for digital signatures that both addresses the special issues and requirements that XML presents for signing operations and uses XML syntax for capturing the result, simplifying its integration into XML applications. Our XML-based XSign software component has been developed for secure personal and business transactions. It enables XML digital signatures using certificates over the Internet and intranet. XSign provides excellent data integrity, message and signer authentication and signer verification for all types of data located within the XML document.

The most common application area for the XSign component is web based applications. The digital signature is created by the user in a web browser with an ActiveX component, and the signature is verified on a web server.

XML enables production and exchange of structured data. The usefulness of such structured data in business critical applications depends upon our ability to assess its origin and authenticity. XML digital signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and signer authentication services and are essential to the success of Web Services. Digital signatures are created and verified using cryptography, the branch of applied mathematics concerned with transforming messages into seemingly unintelligible forms and then back again. Digital signatures are created by performing an operation on information such that others can confirm both the identity of the signer, and the fidelity of the information. This capability is important to a growing number of XML protocol, publishing and commerce applications. The XSign component is based on the XML-signature standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

Major Features:

1. XSign is an ActiveX component and can be used in both web based and desktop applications (XPCOM component for use in Fire Fox will be available in XSign Standard edition) .
2. Can be used in a Web Browser and on the server,
3. Compatible with Microsoft.Net, ASP.Net and many other signature verification libraries
4. XSign is implemented on the Win32 platform and uses Microsoft’s standard API functions for cryptographic functions and XML processing
5. Stand alone installation. No need for MS XML, CAPICOM and other components
6. Compatible with Internet Explorer on all Windows operation system including Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista
7. Implements the XML digital signature standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
8. API that allows application developer flexible to control the signing process
9. Full support of Unicode characters
10. X.509 certificates can be used to generate the signatures (passwords can be used only in XSign Standard Edition, available soon)
11. Support for user certificate store to find certificates, meaning that all devices including installed certificates on your computer, smart cards, and USB tokens, can bi used to generate signatures
12. Utilizes SHA1 digest algorithm, Canonical XML canonicalization and Base64 algorithms
13. When creating signatures the signed XML data can easily be made visible for the user for inspection when required
14. Easy to use, yet powerful