[xmlsec] Signing SOAP envelopes

Rich Salz rsalz at datapower.com
Fri Jun 4 14:12:43 PDT 2004


>          Does OASIS WSS provide the capability to include the signature
> within the SOAP body? I think we can include signature only in the SOAP
> header. If my understanding is wrong, can someone please point me to the
> section # of WSS spec to clarify this?

wss is a soap header.  you can sign the whole envelope by using an
enveloped signature.  beware soap 1.2; see w3c "soap normalization" note.

	/r$

--
Rich Salz                  Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology       http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway  http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview      http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html





More information about the xmlsec mailing list