[Qt-interest] XML reader / writer with encrypted nodes?

Brad Hards bradh at frogmouth.net
Thu Jul 8 23:01:11 CEST 2010


On Friday, July 09, 2010 01:20:03 am Kishore wrote:
> I currently use XML for document file format in my application. Currently i
> use the QDom API for the parsing in the backend and it works quite well.
> In the near future, i do have security requirements that require that i
> encrypt element nodes along the lines of the standard as described at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlenc-core/#sec-eg-Element-Content.
> 
> Is this possible with the Qt classes?
I doubt you can do it without introducing something else to do the crypto 
bits, like QCA.

QCA won't be integrated into the XML stuff, but doing the crypto and the 
parsing separately isn't that hard (e.g. see anyone's implementation of 
encryption of content in ODF).

Brad



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