Re: RE: [xml-dev] The sky is falling! XML's dirty secret! Go back! It's a trap!

[Christian Nentwich <c.nentwich@cs.ucl.ac.uk>]

> The tags in an XML message are likely to be known (or easily
> guessable) by an attacker.  So, a straightforward encryption of

Many encryption systems in practice today compress the data before
encryption. Bye bye tag names.

> I was sortof wondering if that was what was being implied in
> the article, but it was never stated clearly.

Why are people trying so hard to give these guys credit? Is this the XML
Stockholm syndrome, perhaps fuelled by guilt over a lack of fundamental
research in the area ? :-))

Christian Nentwich