Microsoft Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Jianming Li

WSE is Microsoft’s implementation of WS-* specs

  • WS-Security
  • WS-Addressing
  • WS-Policy

WS-Security

  • Secure message at message level
  • Advantages over security at transport level (SSL)
    • Secure over any transport protocols
    • Secure over intermediate servers
    • Allow message routing via unencrypted routing info
    • Allow intermediate parties to inspect and sign messages
    • No SSL overhead

    • References
    Why WSE
    How to: Make X.509 Certificates Accessible to WSE

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