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# XML Security Library

XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2 and OpenSSL. The library supports major XML security standards:

- XML Signature
- XML Encryption
- Canonical XML (was included in LibXML2)
- Exclusive Canonical XML (was included in LibXML2)

XML Security Library is released under the MIT Licence see the Copyright file in the distribution for details.
News (all news)

- April 8 2003
  The new XML Security Library 0.0.15 release is a preparation for the upcomming 1.0.0 release and provides an ability to have both versions installed together on the same box. Also this release includes updated expired certificates for the regression test suite and a fix for a minor bug in reading binary keys on Windows.

- March 19 2003
  XML Security Library 0.0.14 release includes several minor bugfixes in the following areas: URI reference processing, binary transforms processing and xmlsec utility.
- February 21 2003
  XML Security Library 0.0.13 release fixes incorrect processing of signatures with more than 3 binary transforms in a row, improved pkcs12 files support and minor documentation update.
- January 26 2003
  Two major fixes in HMAC and DES/AES algorithms are the reason for the new XML Security Library 0.0.12 release. Also there are few other minor features and bug fixes (see Changelog in the distribution for more details).
- December 3 2002
  New XML Security Library 0.0.11 release fixes a major problem in Reference URI attribute processing. This release also includes several Win32 build process fixes from Igor.
- October 20 2002
  Almost two months from previous release and a lot of minor enchancements are good reasons for the new XML Security Library 0.0.10 release:
  - added a way to specify "current time" to verify certificates expiration against it;
  - implemented XML results output format for the xmlsec command line utility;
  - fixed XMLDSig examples and added a new one (thanks to Devin Heitmueller);
  - resolved static link issue and a bunch of other improvements for Win32 platform builds (Igor Zlatkovic);
  - added dynamic linking option for xmlsec command line utility to help Debian port (John Belmonte);
  - minor bug fixes.
- August 26 2002
  I've completelly screwed up. The release 0.0.8 was totally broken (I simply packaged files from wrong CVS :( ) and I am doing a new 0.0.9 release to fix all the problems. Please upgrade to the new version if you use any of previous XML Security Library releases.
  I am really sorry for my stupid mistakes and I promise to never do releases on Friday :(
  And special thanks to Ferrell Moultrie for pointing this out.
- August 23 2002
  XML Security Library 0.0.8 is released:
  - New errors reporting system is created and all the code is updated;
  - Added XPointer transform support;
  - Major enveloped and XPath transforms performance improvements;
  - Updated XPath 2 Filter implementation to reflect latest W3C specifications;
  - Man page for xmlsec utility is written;
  - Automatically generated API Reference Manual (more than 370 symbols) is created;
  - Minor Win32 bug fixes from Igor;
  - Debian port from John Belmonte.

Aleksey Sanin