Developing a Secure Web Service Architecture for SVG Image Delivery

Web Services are substantially growing and become vital for businesses and organizations. A major concern, especially for mission-critical applications is Security. This study focuses on developing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) as Web services. In particular, the authors develop a service oriented architecture that securely manages SVG Web services using the intermediary design pattern. In the proposed architecture the authors introduced two kinds of specialized security intermediaries to enforce SVG signature/authentication and encryption/decryption. A prototype of the proposed architecture has been implemented based on Apache Axis.