Web Services Security (WSS)

Web Services Security (WSS or WS-Security) describes enhancements to SOAP messaging in order to provide quality of protection through message integrity, and single message authentication. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies.

The scope of the Web Services Security Technical Committee is the support of security mechanisms in the following areas:

Current specification: Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security

The basis of the work is the WS-Security specification submitted to OASIS by IBM, Microsoft, and VeriSign.

Organization: OASIS

More information: WSS page on the OASIS Web site (new window)

More detail for the current topic: Web Services Security (WSS)
	Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
	XML Encryption
	XML Signature

More on the general topic: Security and authorization
	eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
	eXtensible rights Markup Language (XrML)
	Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
	Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)
	XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF)
	XML Key Management Specification (XKMS)

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