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Symmetric signature and encryption policies settings
Use this page to create the trust context to use symmetric tokens.
Using the same token for signing and validating messages and encrypting and
decrypting messages increases performance. Use symmetric tokens within a trust
context.
To view this administrative console page, complete the following options:
- Click Services > Policy sets > Application policy sets.
- Select a policy_set_name in the policy sets table that contains
WS-Security content.
- Click WS-Security in the policies table.
- Click the Main policy link or the Bootstrap policy link.
- Click the Symmetric signature and encryption policies link.
Message Integrity – Token type for signing and validating messages
Specifies the current token type used for signing and validating
messages.
To change the current token type that is displayed in the Token type
for signing and validating messages field or to edit the displayed token
type, click Action.
Message Confidentiality – Use same token type for confidentiality that
is used for integrity
Specifies whether the token type set for signing and validating
messages is also used for encrypting and decrypting messages.
If you select this check box, then the Token type for encrypting and
decrypting messages field is blank. If you clear this check box, then
a different token can be used for message confidentiality.
Message Confidentiality – Token type for encrypting and decrypting
messages
Specifies the current token type that is used for encrypting and
decrypting messages.
To change the current token type that is displayed in the Token type
for encrypting and decrypting messages field or to edit the displayed
token type, verify that the Use the same token type for confidentiality
that is used for integrity protection check box is cleared, and click Action.
Action
Enables the token type selected to be changed or edited.
The
Action button lists supported token types and provides the following
options:
- Edit selected type policy
- Opens a page to edit the token type shown in the token type for signing
or encrypting fields.
- Change to Secure Conversation
- Changes the token type to Secure Conversation.
- Change to custom type
- Opens the custom type page to specify the Uniform Resource Identifier
(URI) for a custom token type.
When you change the token type, any values you specified for
the former token type are lost and the default values for the newly assigned
token type are used.
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