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Subject: Re: [wss] encryption of wsse:security headers
Chris Kaler wrote: >Do you mean "header" or element within the security header? > > I am asking how one uses WSS to encrypt a wsse:security header. It looks like this would be permitted by the spec. Ron > 270 This specification provides a means to protect a message by > encrypting > and/or digitally signing a body, a header, or any combination of them (or > parts of them). > 1223 The message creator MUST NOT encrypt the <S11:Envelope>, > <S12:Envelope>,, <S11:Header>, <S12:Header>, or <S11:Body>, <S12:Body> > elements but MAY encrypt child elements of either the <S11:Header>, > <S12:Header> and > <S11:Body> or <S12:Body> elements. Multiple steps of encryption MAY be > added into a > single <wsse:Security> header block if they are targeted for the same > recipient. > When an element or element content inside a SOAP envelope (e.g. the > contents of the > <S11:Body> or <S12:Body> elements) are to be encrypted, it MUST be > replaced by an > <xenc:EncryptedData>, according to XML Encryption and it SHOULD be > referenced from the > <xenc:ReferenceList> element created by this encryption step. >-----Original Message----- >From: Ron Monzillo [mailto:Ronald.Monzillo@Sun.COM] >Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 5:56 AM >To: wss@lists.oasis-open.org >Subject: [wss] encryption of wsse:security headers > >If you want to encrypt a security header, can you replace it with just >an EncryptedData element, >or do you need another place to store an EncryptedKey or a >ReferenceList? > > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of >the OASIS TC), go to >http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wss/members/leave_workgroup >.php. > > >To unsubscribe from this mailing list (and be removed from the roster of the OASIS TC), go to http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wss/members/leave_workgroup.php. > > >
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