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Subject: Some editorial mistakes?


Hi.

You may know, but I found some incompletnesses. 
Could you please check following.


Firstly,
There are inconsistent descriptions between Core and UsernameToken 
Profile.

At least, for non-english-native people will misunderstand...

Password element is used to send hashed password(password digest).
I think it must be true that a secure transport should be used when 
plain password is sent, it is ambiguous whether a secure transport 
should be used or not when digested password is sent. 

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Web Services Security
SOAP Message Security (Core)
Working Draft 11, Monday, 03 March 2003

(1538-1540)
If the underlying transport does not provide enough
protection against eavesdropping, the password SHOULD
be digested as described in Section 6.1.1.

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Web Services Security
UsernameToken Profile
Working Draft 2, Sunday, 23 February 2003

(127-129)
/wsse:UsernameToken/Password
This optional element provides password information
(or equivalent such as a hash). It is recommended that
this element only be passed when a secure transport
is being used.
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The last sentence above should be following?

It is recommended that this element only be passed when a secure 
transport is being used and/or password is being digested.



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Secondly, Typo:(730,733)

/wsse:SecurityTokenReference/KeyIdentifier/{any}

should be 

/wsse:SecurityTokenReference/embedded/{any}

and

/wsse:SecurityTokenReference/KeyIdentifier/@{any}

should be

/wsse:SecurityTokenReference/embedded/@{any}


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Thirdly, Lacking?:(736-749)

The following example illustrates embedding a SAML assertion: 

But, I couldn't find SAML assertion in example...



Thanks.

---------
Yutaka Kudo, Researcher.
Web Services, 201 Research Unit.
Systems Development Labo. Hitachi, Ltd.


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