Chapter 14. Enterprise Security for Web Services
The eXtensible Markup Language (XML), because of its simplicity and flexibility, is expected to facilitate Internet business-to-business (B2B) messaging. One big concern that enterprises have in doing Internet B2B messaging is security. The Internet is a public network, without protection against such attacks as eavesdropping and forgery. If messages are stolen, replayed, or modified during transmission, B2B messaging becomes useless. Fortunately, the recent advancement of Web Services security has remedied most of the security problems in communication.
Various XML security technologies are enhancing security by introducing new features, such as digital signatures, elementwise encryption, and access ...
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