OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards that was formed in 1993 to oversee the development and adoption of standards for Internet business information exchange, has just completed the ratification of the Digital Signature Services (DSS) specification, version 1.0.
DSS was originally proposed back in 2002 when the organization first formed a technical committee to develop XML-based protocols for digital signatures and cryptographic timestamping in Web services transactions. The core protocol involves digital
This is the first of a four part series of articles that will examine issues related to web services security. The goal is to explain and demonstrate the use of emerging XML-based security standards from W3C and OASIS. The series will help developers understand:
* the security requirements of web service applications;
* how the different standards fulfill the different security requirements;
* how the different security standards are related to each other; and
* how they coordinate to form modules of the entire web services security
This is the first of a four part series of articles that will examine issues related to web services security. The goal is to explain and demonstrate the use of emerging XML-based security standards from W3C and OASIS. The series will help developers understand:
* the security requirements of web service applications;
* how the different standards fulfill the different security requirements;
* how the different security standards are related to each other; and
* how they coordinate to form modules of the entire web services security