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Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security

Web Services Security (WSS): SOAP Message Security is a set of enhancements to SOAP messaging that provides message integrity and confidentiality. WSS: SOAP Message Security is extensible, and can accommodate a variety of security models and encryption technologies.

WSS: SOAP Message Security provides three main mechanisms that can be used independently or together. They are:

WSS: SOAP Message Security can be used in conjunction with other Web service extensions and application-specific protocols to satisfy a variety of security requirements.

The specification is published by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) at Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security 1.0 (WS-Security 2004).
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