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The Web Services portion of GT 4.0 uses SOAP over HTTP for communicating messages.
WS Authentication and Authorization Message-Level Security implements the WS-Security standard and the WS-SecureConversation specification to provide message protection for SOAP messages. Features include authentication of the sender, encryption of the message, integrity protection of the message and replay protection.
WS Authentication and Authorization Transport-Level Security provides a secure channel by using HTTP over SSL/TLS (HTTPS) for transporting the messages. This security mechanism supports all of the security features provided by SSL/TLS with the addition of support for X.509 Proxy Certificates.
Features new in GT 4.0
- Compliance with published IBM/Microsoft WS-Trust and WS-SecureConversation specifications
- Compliance with the Web Services Security 1.0 standard
- HTTPS support
Other Supported Features
- Message encryption, integrity protection and replay attack prevention
- Establishment of a session key for light-weight message protection
Deprecated Features
- GT 3.2 SecureConversation protocol
Support for anonymous authentication was added to the transport security (HTTPS) authentication mechanism.
- Bug 2178: Any SOAP headers used for dispatching need to be secured
- Bug 2179: Fix up replay attack prevention
- Bug 2193: No local subject error
- Bug 2207: Missing security error 'timestampNotOk'
- Bug 2371: Better error reporting for security descriptor parsing errors
- Bug 2523: Core should cause error/warning for bad containerSecDesc file
WS Authentication and Authorization Message & Transport Level Security depends on the following GT components:
- The C implementation depends on C WS Core.
- The Java implementation depends on Java WS Core.
WS Authentication and Authorization Message & Transport Level Security depends on the following 3rd party software:
- Apache WSFX Security Libraries
- PureTLS Libraries
- BouncyCastle JCE provider
- Cryptix Libraries
- Apache XML Security Libraries
WS Authentication and Authorization Message & Transport Level Security should work on any platform that supports J2SE 1.3.1 or higher.
Tested Platforms for WS Authentication and Authorization Message & Transport Level Security
- Linux (Red Hat 7.3)
- Windows 2000
- Solaris 9
Protocol changes in WS Authentication and Authorization Message-Level Security since GT 3.2
- WS-SecureConversation updated to reflect published IBM/Microsoft specification.
- Web Services Security updated to reflect published OASIS standard (1.0).
API changes since GT 3.2
- N/A
Exception changes since GT 3.2
- N/A
Schema changes since GT 3.2
- N/A
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