On 07/31/2012 04:00 PM, Bill Burke wrote: The idea is to encrypt content (arbitrary bytes) and send it as part of a json construct. Unlike the xml document scenarios, where you want to encrypt parts. There is currently a BSD style implementation of json security drafts by a German researcher, that I have requested to be made into an independent project. Then Jackson or any other project that intends to have json signature/encryption can get this functionality via this independent library. Bill, time for you to submit a IETF draft to datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jose/