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What is old is new
By Kenneth Graf (Intel)Posted June 26th 20084
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 ...
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Should you prevent malicious XML traffic with a firewall?
By Kenneth Graf (Intel)Posted June 20th 20080
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 ...
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Your password is a potentially dangerous
By Kenneth Graf (Intel)Posted June 19th 20081
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 ...
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Does ease of use mean anything to web services security?
By Kenneth Graf (Intel)Posted May 16th 20080
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 ...
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Making XML schema validation fast
By Kenneth Graf (Intel)Posted April 30th 20081
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 to share ...
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Intel XML software? Who knew?
By Kenneth Graf (Intel)Posted April 24th 20083
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 ...
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