Design Considerations for Implementing Security in Web Services
Design Considerations for Implementing Security in Web Services
The rapid growth in XML and increasing use of World Wide Web allow users to use internet as a platform for document sharing and hosting embedded with certain security features. XML is becoming most prevalent means through which documents and data are encoded for distribution among users on the web. Currently no strict security models and mechanisms are available that can provide specification and enforcement of security policies for XML documents. Such models are crucial in order to facilitate a secure dissemination of XML documents, containing information of different sensitivity levels, among (possibly large) user communities. This paper concentrates on proposing key design considerations to implement the PKI enables security in XML documents, by defining a component model and processing rules that can be shared across applications using common tools, avoiding the need for extensive customisation of applications to add security. The considerations reuses the concepts, algorithms and core technologies of legacy security systems while introducing changes necessary to support extensible integration with XML. This allows interoperability with a wide range of existing infrastructures and across deployments.
Alvi, Fawaz
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Khoja, Shakeel
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December 2003
Alvi, Fawaz
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Khoja, Shakeel
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Alvi, Fawaz, Khoja, Shakeel and Jabeen, Zohra
(2003)
Design Considerations for Implementing Security in Web Services.
2nd International workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2003), Shahgai, China.
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The rapid growth in XML and increasing use of World Wide Web allow users to use internet as a platform for document sharing and hosting embedded with certain security features. XML is becoming most prevalent means through which documents and data are encoded for distribution among users on the web. Currently no strict security models and mechanisms are available that can provide specification and enforcement of security policies for XML documents. Such models are crucial in order to facilitate a secure dissemination of XML documents, containing information of different sensitivity levels, among (possibly large) user communities. This paper concentrates on proposing key design considerations to implement the PKI enables security in XML documents, by defining a component model and processing rules that can be shared across applications using common tools, avoiding the need for extensive customisation of applications to add security. The considerations reuses the concepts, algorithms and core technologies of legacy security systems while introducing changes necessary to support extensible integration with XML. This allows interoperability with a wide range of existing infrastructures and across deployments.
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Published date: December 2003
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Event Dates: December 2003
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2nd International workshop on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC 2003), Shahgai, China, 2003-12-01
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Web & Internet Science
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/266565
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Fawaz Alvi
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Shakeel Khoja
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Zohra Jabeen
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