Message Level Security For Grid Services Using S/MIME

Message level security is essential in knowledge grids, where digital signing of messages is a natural requirement. XML-Signature based digital signatures were reported to be very slow. We present an alternative, based on long-established standard for signing e-mails, together with performance measurements.

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