XML tag encryption?

[Roger Marquis <marquis () roble com>]

There's an article in the May 27 Computerword entitled "XML's Dirty
Secret".  It's labeled a Technical Analysis but written more like
an advertisement for the Forum Sentry Server Appliance (www.forumsys.com).
This is a Linux-based network device that apparently encrypts and
decrypts XML tags (not the data, just the tags).

It's an interesting application but one that wouldn't seem to offer
any substantive benefit over other types of encryption (VPN, file,
content, ...).  The xml-dev list is divided on the issue
<http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200205/msg01412.html>.

Is this another dot-com bomb or might XML be a potential security
product niche?

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/

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