Technical specification
- Feature list
- Available editions
- Supported platforms
- Development tools
Feature list
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XML security features, supported by XMLBlackbox are:
- support for XML Encryption Syntax and Processing standard for encryption and decryption of XML documents and their parts
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- support for XML-Signature Syntax and Processing standard for digital signing and signature verification of XML documents and their parts
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- built-in XAdES support for timestamping of the digital signatures
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- XML-compliant signing / verification and encryption / decryption of both XML-formatted documents, individual XML nodes or generic data
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- securing of the data using RSA keys, X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys
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- detached, enveloping, enveloped signature types (signing and HMAC are supported)
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- simple, inclusive and exclusive canonicalization with our without comments
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- Base64, C14N (canonicalization), enveloped signature, XPath transforms
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- support for Cryptocards and USB Crypto Tokens
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- buit-in DOM parser and writer with powerful charset support
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- (optional) FIPS-compliant operation mode
OpenPGP standard is used by XMLBlackbox for operations, which use OpenPGP keys, and is provided by OpenPGPBlackbox, which is included with XMLBlackbox.
PKI Infrastructure is used by XMLBlackbox for certificate-based operations. Base functions of PKIBlackbox are included with XMLBlackbox.
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Available editions
XMLBlackbox is available in several editions for various software platforms.
.NET edition.
Built with Chrome, this edition of XMLBlackbox includes pure managed components, carefully optimized to achieve maximum performance, comparable to native processor code.
.NET edition requires .NET Framework 1.1, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 3.5, Mono 1.0, Mono 2.0, .NET CF 1.0, .NET CF 2.0 or .NET CF 3.5.
.NET edition can be used on Windows desktop systems, Windows Mobile PDAs and on Linux systems with Mono installed.
VCL edition.
Blazingly fast native Delphi (Pascal) components for building native Windows and Linux applications. Usable with Delphi, C++ Builder or FreePascal (Win32 and Linux/x86).
VCL edition works on any computer with Windows 98 and later or with Linux kernel 2.4 and later.
Supported platforms
- Windows:
- Windows 2008 R2 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2008 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2003 Server (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- Windows 2000
- Microsoft .NET Framework:
- .NET 3.5 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 3.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 2.0 (32-bit, 64-bit AMD64 and 64-bit Itanium)
- .NET 1.1 (32-bit)
- Microsoft .NET Compact Framework:
- .NET CF 3.5
- .NET CF 2.0
- .NET CF 1.0
- Mono:
- Linux
Development tools
Various editions of XMLBlackbox are used with different development tools:
.NET edition of XMLBlackbox can be used with
- MS Visual Studio 2008
- MS Visual Studio 2005
- MS Visual Studio .NET 2003
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 (Delphi Prism)
- Borland Developer Studio 2006 (C# Builder personality)
- Borland Delphi 2005 (C# Builder personality)
- Borland Delphi 8
- Borland C# Builder
- MONO development tools
VCL edition of XMLBlackbox is offered for
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2009 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2009
- CodeGear Delphi 2009
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- CodeGear C++Builder 2007
- CodeGear Delphi 2007
- Borland Developer Studio 2006 (Delphi/Win32 and C++Builder personalities)
- Borland Delphi 2005 (Delphi/Win32 personality)
- Borland Delphi 4-7
- FreePascal 2.0.2 or later (Win32 and Linux / x86)
Support for Delphi 2009 and C++Builder 2009 is provided in SecureBlackbox 7.
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Compression gives an additional level of security and lets you increase transfer speed significantly and reduce the network load and storage space requirements.
Synchronous operation mode gives you a linear programming approach without complicated callback functions. This approach saves your development time and reduces the number of errors.
Asynchronous operation mode, on the other hand, gives you flexibility and complete control over your application communications.
Synchronous operation mode gives you a linear programming approach without complicated callback functions. This approach saves your development time and reduces the number of errors.
Simple SecureBlackbox components can be used for reliable data transfer no matter what type of proxy or firewall is used to protect the network.
You can process huge files and not be bound by restrictions of 32-bit environments. This feature works on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems without any limitations.
To limit and control network load and bandwidth consumption you can setup maximum upload and download speed for the data transfer components.
Transport (SSL, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, SSH, SFTP) components can be used in IPv6 networks without any problems, address conversions or packet wrapping.
In FIPS operation mode SecureBlackbox uses only certified CryptoAPI modules of Windows to perform any cryptographic operations.
FIPS mode is available only on Windows platform.
Cryptographic hardware gains more and more popularity every day. If your software deals with X.509 certificates or PKI in general (RSA keys etc.), it is time to support cryptocards and USB tokens.
To use cryptographic hardware you need a license for PKIBlackbox.
SecureBlackbox was written from the ground up by EldoS Corporation developers.
It doesn't use third-party code to implement its cryptographic functions.
This means that you are not bound by CryptoAPI or OpenSSL version when you need to use certain algorithm.
At the same time it's possible to plug third-party security libraries and hardware modules by utilizing the pluggable architecture of SecureBlackbox.
No royalties means the licensing procedure which is clear and easy to understand and manage. Pay for the license once and use it for development and deployment with no other payments.
We provide free technical support via web-based Forum and HelpDesk. Support is available for everyone, and the requests from clients who purchased a license are given priority.
Also you can use our extensive knowledgebase.
With certificate-based or key-based encryption you can prepare the documents, which are supposed to be read by just one or several recipients.
And you don't need to share the common passwords between all parties.
Password-based encryption is the regular encryption type, good for storing the documents within the application.
Digital signing of the XML data is used in many areas of XML use, such as Web Services, cross-platform data exchange and more.
Timestamping is a vital part of digital signing procedure, that allows you to set and certify the time, when the signature was made.
Your requirements can include signing and encryption of the XML documents in whole, or of the part of the data being transferred.
You can even use XML signing and encryption for processing non-XML data.
You choose what to sign and XMLBlackbox does the job.
No matter, what type of public key infrastructure your organization or the other party uses, you can meet the requirements with XMLBlackbox.
Using XMLBlackbox you can not just perform signing and encryption of the data, but also create and manage RSA keys, X.509 certificates and OpenPGP keys yourself.
This feature eliminates the need in external software for key management.
The requirements that you need to meet can require different types of document signature used, and no matter what the type is you can create such signature with XMLBlackbox.
There might be a need to apply various transformations (pre-processing) of the data before it is signed or encrypted.
With XMLBlackbox you can achieve strict standard and requirement compliance.
Cryptographic hardware gains more and more popularity every day.
If your software deals with X.509 certificates or PKI in general (RSA keys etc.), it is time to support cryptocards and USB tokens.
Unlike the competitive solutions XMLBlackbox is fully capable to use the cryptographic hardware (which doesn't export the private key) for signing and decryption of the data.
To use cryptographic hardware you need a license for PKIBlackbox.
With XMLBlackbox you don't need a separate parser/writer for your XML documents.
You can use the powerful XML parser/writer with XPath support which is included into XMLBlackbox.
Use of built-in DOM parser reduces code size, increases quality of the code and speeds-up development of your software.
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Clients say
We started with few knowledge to digital signing, but with the help of the documentation, the samples and the very excellent support of EldoS we reached our goal very fast.
Latest version
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Released 2 February 2010
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