A Key based Distributed Approach for Data Integrity and Consistency in JSON and XML(Hierarchical Data Exchange Formats)

Abstract

The payload delivery is a challenging task as data may be corrupted anywhere by anyone in this present era. The existing standards of symmetric and asymmetric key algorithms provide confidentiality and authentication; meantime data integrity & consistency are the other two important parameters. The lightweight data like JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and ExtensibleMarkup Language (XML) are introduced to make data access easier and faster. These objects follow the traditional method of generating digests using traditional approaches such as MD5 and Hash algorithms, but they need better treatment since they are different by nature. Message digests can be generated in a distributed fashion to achieve the highest level accuracy. This paper suggests a distributed approach for data integrity and consistency in JSON and XML and discusses the advantages of the same.