xml-security vs. native security

From: securenix (sequru_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 18:56:12 +0200

Hi,

I am involving in the development of an application framework focusing
on web services. Messages excnahged among framework principals are SOAP
messages.

For security issues like encrypting, signing, etc. I am planing to use
native byte[]-oriented cryptographic techniques. But I see around
xml-security solutions (e.g. WS-Security, etc.). I wonder what
advantages the xml-security bring us over native-security solutions? Do
native-solutions cause any bottleneck for web services?

Thanks