RE: SOAP-DSIG and OASIS WSS Soap message security

"Anne Thomas Manes" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.distributed
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Note that SOAP-DSIG has no formal standing (it's a W3C Note -- not a
Recommendation or even a Working Draft).

OASIS WSS SOAP Message Security is a formal OASIS Standard.

You should use OASIS WSS. There are about 2 dozen products that have or are
in the process of implementing OASIS WSS. Most vendors have committed to
supporting OASIS WSS by mid year.

Anne

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Eugene Kuznetsov
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 10:36 PM
To: 'Juneja, Manoj'; [email protected]
Subject: RE: SOAP-DSIG and OASIS WSS Soap message security


 	SOAP-DSIG was there before WS-Sec, and while still successfully used
by many in production, it is being increasingly replaced by WS-Security
drafts. If your goal is to accept a wide variety of signed messages from
different partners, you may need to support both. If you are building a new
app, you probably want WS-Security. If you have a specific service you're
connecting with, find out what they are using -- surprisingly, you may find
it's neither WS-Security nor SOAP-Sec! 
	Whatever the case, consider whether you really want to write it all
yourself, even on top of a toolkit. There are plenty of vendors
(<plug>DataPower included</plug>) who are obsessively working on security,
interoperability and performance of XML-DSIG and XML-ENC implementations. 
 

\\ Eugene Kuznetsov                  : [email protected]
\\ DataPower Technology, Inc.        : Web Services security
\\ http://www.datapower.com          : XS40 XML Security Gateway

 


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	From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Juneja, Manoj
	Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 7:31 PM
	To: [email protected]
	Subject: SOAP-DSIG and OASIS WSS Soap message security
	
	

	Hi All,

	        Can someone on this list explain me how the SOAP-DSIG
specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/NOTE-SOAP-dsig-20010206/) relate to
the OASIS WSS SOAP Message Security 1.0 specification? If I have to make use
of XML signature tags in my SOAP envelope then what specification should I
follow?

	 

	Thanks for the help.

	 

	Regards,

	manoj.
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