XML Security Library is a C library based on LibXML2. It provides an implementation for major XML security standards: XML Digital Signature and XML Encryption.
| Tags | Security Cryptography Software Development Libraries |
|---|---|
| Licenses | MIT/X |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release fixes a serious crash issue; all users are advised to upgrade.


Release Notes: This release includes a fix for an important security issue with XSLT transforms (CVE-2011-1425). It is strongly recommended to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.


Release Notes: This release introduces the new xmlsec-gcrypt library with support for almost all crypto operations. X509 certificates support was implemented for the xmlsec-gnutls library. RSA/OAEP and AES/DES KW support were added to the xmlsec-mscrypto library.


Release Notes: This release adds HMAC with MD5, SHA1, SHA256/384/512; RSA with MD5, SHA256/384/512 support to xmlsec-mscrypto; MD5 and SHA256/384/512 support for digest, HMAC, and RSA to xmlsec-nss; and SHA256/384/512 for digest and HMAC; MD5 and RIPEMD160 digests support to xmlsec-gnutls.


Release Notes: Instead of the built-in LTDL library, the system LTDL library is used on Linux/Unix and native calls are used on Windows. This is to fix a security issue (CVE-2009-3736) in LTDL.