(Last updated 21 March 2006) MIME media type name: application MIME subtype name: xenc+xml Required parameters: none Optional parameters: charset The allowable and recommended values for, and interpretation of the charset parameter are identical to those given for 'application/xml' in section 3.2 of RFC 3023 [XML-MT]. Encoding considerations: The encoding considerations are identical to those given for 'application/xml' in section 3.2 of RFC 3023 [XML-MT]. Security considerations: See the [XML-Encryption] Security Considerations section. Interoperability considerations: none Published specification: [XML-Encryption] Applications which use this media type: XML Encryption is device-, platform-, and vendor-neutral and is supported by a range of Web applications. Additional Information: Magic number(s): none Although no byte sequences can be counted on to consistently identify XML Encryption documents, they will be XML documents in which the root element's QName's LocalPart is 'EncryptedData' or 'EncryptedKey' with an associated namespace name of 'http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#'. The application/xenc+xml type name MUST only be used for data objects in which the root element is from the XML Encryption namespace. XML documents which contain these element types in places other than the root element can be described using facilities such as [XML-schema]. File extension(s): .xml Macintosh File Type Code(s): "TEXT" Person & email address to contact for further information: Joseph Reagle XENC Working Group Intended usage: COMMON Author/Change controller: The XML Encryption specification is a work product of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) which has change control over the specification (File created 21 March 2006)