[Cryptography] multi-key encryption of "meta" data

[Peter Gutmann]

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill at hallambaker.com> writes:

>Actually it was IBM and Microsoft who wanted to sell lots of high priced
>consultancy that was the problem with WS-*

I can't speak for MS, but I know that the implementation folks at IBM weren't 
thrilled with the mess that it turned into either.  Hypothesising evil vendor 
conspiracies is always popular, but in this case I think it was just a 
standard result of design-by-committee [0].

Peter.

[0] A sufficiently determined single author can come up with a 
    design-by-committee standard, so it's more a state of mind than a physical 
    entity.