OASIS announced on Tuesday approval of WS-SecureConversation version 1.3 and WS-Trust version 1.3 as OASIS Standards.
This status is the organization's highest level of ratification. The two standards define policies and extensions to WS-Security to enable trusted exchange of multiple SOAP messages, OASIS said.
WS-Trust provides for issuance, renewal and validation of security tokens and establishment, detection and brokering of trust relationships. The specification builds on WS-Security by introducing an XML syntax and a protocol to enable the issuance and dissemination of credentials between different trust domains vi a Security Token Service.
WS-SecureConversation allows for security contexts to be created and key material to be exchanged more efficiently, said OASIS.
IBM, Microsoft and Sun Microsystems have verified implementations of WS-SecureConversation and WS-Trust, OASIS said.
Posted by Paul Krill on March 27, 2007 04:32 PM
