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What is old is new

By Kenneth Graf (Intel) (6 posts) on June 26, 2008 at 5:47 am
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In the last few days there have been a number of announcements related to the "latest" in digital identities. Is this just a rehash of the old SAML, Liberty Alliance, Identrus, Microsoft Passort conflict? Or something really new? I wish I was smart enough to pick a winner or tell you when a dominate approach will [...]

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Category: XML Software

Should you prevent malicious XML traffic with a firewall?

By Kenneth Graf (Intel) (6 posts) on June 20, 2008 at 4:19 am
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We are all familiar with a basic firewall; limiting the ports and protocols that are available to the outside world.  And many firewall vendors are pushing “deep packet inspection” as a way to further control access by analyzing the data sent and received. There are a number of XML appliance vendors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_appliance) all provide security to [...]

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Category: XML Software

Your password is a potentially dangerous

By Kenneth Graf (Intel) (6 posts) on June 19, 2008 at 2:59 pm
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It has been awhile since I last blogged and my general password had changed, imagine my surprise when I login on to blog and received this error message.  A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (_ctl1:txtPassword="...*...."). Well, surprised really is not the right word.  I understand that some application developer listened to [...]

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Category: Software Engineering, XML Software

Does ease of use mean anything to web services security?

By Kenneth Graf (Intel) (6 posts) on May 16, 2008 at 10:08 am
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My XML journeys took me to JavaOne last week.  I am a people watcher, and I have always found it fastening to observe the herd mentality at larger conferences like JavaOne.  The queues for the keynotes, the rush to lunch, and don’t get me started on people eagerly standing in line for some logo laden [...]

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Category: XML Software

Making XML schema validation fast

By Kenneth Graf (Intel) (6 posts) on April 30, 2008 at 10:29 pm
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Last week I promised to talk more about what our team in PRC is doing.  So in this post I have a little bit of a challenge for you XML pioneers out there. If you could define new CPU instructions to improve XML validation, what would they be? Well Yongnian Le from the XET team has ideas [...]

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Category: XML Software

Intel XML software? Who knew?

By Kenneth Graf (Intel) (6 posts) on April 24, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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You are reading this post I am guessing you knew.  So count yourself as a pioneer.  Someone willing to explore!  Someone that is looking to kick the XML status-quo right in the assembler!  Does XML even have an assembler?  Sorry, I digress.  I wanted to talk about XML pioneers. We've already established you're a pioneer, looking [...]

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Category: XML Software