Web Services Security Addendum

Level: Advanced

Contributors: IBM, VeriSign, Microsoft

18 Aug 2002

This document describes clarifications, enhancements, best practices, and errata of the WS-Security specification.

Since the publication of the WS-Security specification, additional reviews and implementation experiences suggest some additions, clarifications, and corrections to the original specification.

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Resources

• Learn more about the Web Services Security model in "Security in a Web Services World: A proposed architecture and roadmap" (developerWorks, April 2002).
  
  
• Web Services Security describes enhancements to SOAP to provide quality of protection through message integrity, confidentiality, and authentication.
  
  
• Web services standards roadmap.
  

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