Re: WS-Security Support

NuSOAP does not support WS-Security.  It would be a large enough undertaking 
that I don't imagine full WS-Security support any time soon, although there is 
the possibility of a subset, such as signing, being implemented.

To my knowledge, there is no truly similar security spec for SOAP.  WS-Security 
will become the standard, although many sites will not support it now.  I think 
MSFT still pacakges WS-Security with Web Services Enhancements, so WS-Security 
is not part of the standard .NET libraries.  WSE only runs on .NET 2.0.  
Therefore, sites using .NET 1.1 or which are suspicious of anything not in the 
standard .NET libraries will not be supporting WS-Security right now.  
Likewise, folks using NuSOAP, SOAP::Lite, gSOAP, or a number of Java products 
will not have WS-Security available to them.

I would say the best supported and most common bi-directional Web services 
security mechanism in place is SSL with client certificates.  This provides 
identification of both client and server, with encryption to protect message 
contents.

Scott Nichol

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeraimee Hughes" <jhughes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <nusoap-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:49 AM
Subject: [Nusoap-general] WS-Security Support


> I'm just learning about the WS-Security specification(s) and I'm  
> hoping to use NuSOAP for my new services but the word from above is  
> that I must support either WS-Security or another similar security  
> method.
> 
> Any advice, hints, etc. for using NuSOAP in this way?
> 
> ---
> Jeraimee Hughes
> Director of System Architecture
> Revelex, Inc.
> 561.988.5588
> 
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