Definitions for "XKMS"
XML ey anagement pecification - Allows the integration of authentication services, digital signature, encryption, without using PKI. The relationship between third parties is ensure by Servers accessed via XML transactions.
XML Key Management System, a system for managing public keys that incorporates key registration and distribution.
(XML Key Management Service) is a proposed standard for the enrollment and subsequent management of keys. Rather than integrating complicated PKI key management functionality into applications through 'toolkits', XKMS enables the outsourcing of this PKI functionality to remote services. The application developer need only know how to create/process the appropriate XML messages with which the remote services are invoked.