Encrypting all or parts of an XML message

Camel's XML Security Component is used when you need to encrypt and decrypt all or parts of an XML message. A Data Format provided by this component handles transformation between an encrypted and decrypted message.

The XML Security Component supports both symmetric and asymmetric encryption of XML messages as outlined by the W3C Recommendation XML Encryption Syntax and Processing. In symmetric encryption, a password shared by the sender and receiver is used to encrypt and decrypt a message. Using asymmetric encryption, the public key of the message recipient is used to encrypt the message, thereby only permitting the intended recipient to decrypt it.

This Camel component allows you to provide an XPath that points to a node, or set of nodes, in the document that will be encrypted; if none is provided the entire document will be encrypted.

This recipe will show you how to configure full asymmetric encryption of XML message payloads. It will show...