摘要 |
Methods for transferring messages (30) comprising extensible markup language information from sources (104) via intermediates (105) to destinations (106) are provided with hop-by-hop encryption / decryption processes instead of end-to-end encryption / decryption processes to reduce a complexity and to make non-encrypted messages (30) available inside the intermediates (105). The encryption / decryption processes are different per hop. An encryption / decryption of the message (30) comprises an encryption / decryption of one or more fields of the message (30) and may comprise an addition / detection of a signature. The message (30) may comprise a start envelope field (32), a header field (33-35), a body field (36-38) and a stop envelope field (39). The message (30) may comprise a simple object access protocol message or SOAP message. ® KIPO & WIPO 2009 |