Web Services Security:
SOAP Message Security 1.1
(WS-Security 2004)
OASIS Public Review Draft - 28 June 2005
OASIS identifier:
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Location:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2005/xx/wss-v1.1-spec-pr-SOAPMessageSecurity-01
Technical Commitee:
Web
Service Security (WSS)
Chairs:
Kelvin
Lawrence, IBM
Chris Kaler, Microsoft
Editors:
Anthony
Nadalin, IBM
Chris
Kaler, Microsoft
Ronald Monzillo, Sun
Phillip Hallam-Baker, Verisign
Abstract:
This specification describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide message integrity and confidentiality. The specified mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies.
This specification also provides a general-purpose mechanism for associating security tokens with message content. No specific type of security token is required, the specification is designed to be extensible (i.e.. support multiple security token formats). For example, a client might provide one format for proof of identity and provide another format for proof that they have a particular business certification.
Additionally, this specification describes how to encode binary security tokens, a framework for XML-based tokens, and how to include opaque encrypted keys. It also includes extensibility mechanisms that can be used to further describe the characteristics of the tokens that are included with a message.
Status:
This is a technical committee document submitted for consideration by the OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) technical committee. Please send comments to the editors. If you are on the wss@lists.oasis-open.org list for committee members, send comments there. If you are not on that list, subscribe to the wss-comment@lists.oasis-open.org list and send comments there. To subscribe, send an email message to wss-comment-request@lists.oasis-open.org with the word "subscribe" as the body of the message. For patent disclosure information that may be essential to the implementation of this specification, and any offers of licensing terms, refer to the Intellectual Property Rights section of the OASIS Web Services Security Technical Committee (WSS TC) web page at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wss/ipr.php. General OASIS IPR information can be found at http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.shtml.
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