By TODD R. WEISS-Microsoft Corp. and VeriSign Inc. unveiled an XML-based online security standard aimed at allowing easier integration of digital signatures and encryption for e-commerce. The protocol, called the XML key management specification (XKMS), uses the relative simplicity of XML to imple
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By Peter Coffee: At XML Devcon in San Jose, Calif., last month, an attendee asked Ken North's panel on the future of software development to comment on the continuing need to write ever more new code. What's happened, he asked, to all the effort to make code more reusable during the past
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