Providing consistent cryptographic operations

A computer usable program product comprising a computer usable storage medium including computer usable code for providing consistent cryptographic operations in a data processing system, the computer usable code comprising:

• computer usable code for receiving a data input from an originating application by a security plug-in, both the application and the security plug-in executing in the data processing system;
• computer usable code for receiving a security schema object by the security plug-in, the security schema object describing a sequence of cryptographic operations, wherein the security schema object includes a plurality of components each component describing an aspect of the cryptographic operations;
• computer usable code for transforming the data input into a secure structured data object by the security plug-in using the sequence of cryptographic operations;
• computer usable code for populating a property of the secure structured data object using data about the security schema object;
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• computer usable code for transmitting the secure structured data object to a consumer application.

A data processing system for providing consistent cryptographic operations, the data processing system comprising:

• a storage device including a storage medium, wherein the storage device stores computer usable program code;
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• a processor, wherein the processor executes the computer usable program code, and wherein the computer usable program code comprises:
• computer usable code for receiving a data input from an originating application by a security plug-in, both the application and the security plug-in executing in the data processing system;
• computer usable code for receiving a security schema object by the security plug-in, the security schema object describing a sequence of cryptographic operations, wherein the security schema object includes a plurality of components each component describing an aspect of the cryptographic operations;
• computer usable code for transforming the data input into a secure structured data object by the security plug-in using the sequence of cryptographic operations;
• computer usable code for populating a property of the secure structured data object using data about the security schema object;
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• computer usable code for transmitting the secure structured data object to a consumer application.