Web Services Security:
SAML Token Profile 1.1

OASIS Approved Errata, 1 November 2006

Document Identifier:

wss-v1.1-errata-os-SAMLTokenProfile

Location:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/v1.1

Technical Committee:

OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) TC

Chairs:

Kelvin Lawrence	IBM
Chris Kaler	Microsoft

Editors

Ronald Monzillo

Sun

Abstract:

This document contains approved errata pertaining to the OASIS Standard, Web Services Security: SAML Token Profile 1.1 [WSS: SAML Token Profile 1.1] . The errata has been approved by the OASIS Web Services Technical Committee.

Status:

This document is an OASIS Approved Errata for the OASIS Standard. The standard was approved by the OASIS membership on 1 February 2006.

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Table of Contents

1Issues Addressed

Corrections to the following issues, as they pertain to the OASIS Standard, Web Services Security: SAML Token Profile 1.1 [WSS: SAML Token Profile 1.1], are defined in this document:

The issues are described in detail in the Issues List [WSS-Issues] of the OASIS Web Services Security Technical Committee.

2Editorial/Typographical Corrections

Issue 463

In “Table-1 Namespace Prefixes” of section 2.2 “Namespaces”, corrected URI for xenc by adding missing “#” to the end of the URI.

3Corrections to Non-Normative Content

Issue 464

In section 3.5.1.1, Attesting Entity“, inserted the following paragraph (with footnote) following line 695:

The attesting entity MAY protect against substitution of a different but equivalently confirmed¹ assertion by including, as described in section 3.4.3 "SAML Assertion Referenced from SignedInfo", the SAML assertion (or an unambiguous reference to it) in the content signed to demonstrate knowledge of the confirmation key.

Added the parenthetical phrase “(including any SAML statements)” to the second paragraph of section 3.5.1.2. “Receiver”, such that it reads as follows:

If the receiver determines that the attesting entity has demonstrated knowledge of a subject confirmation key, then the subjects and claims of the SAML statements confirmed by the key MAY be attributed to the attesting entity and any content of the message (including any SAML statements) whose integrity is protected by the key MAY be considered to have been provided by the attesting entity.

Added the following paragraph to the end of section 4.5 “Message Modification”.

To ensure that message receivers can have confidence that an assertion with an equivalent confirmation key has not been substituted for the assertion used by the attesting entity, the attesting entity MAY include the assertion (or an unambiguous reference to it) in the attested for (i.e., signed) message content.

4Corrections to Normative Content

None

5References

[WSS: SAML Token Profile 1.1] Oasis Standard, R. Monzillo, .C. Kaler, A. Nadalin, P. Hallem-Baker (Editors), Web Services Security: SAML Token Profile 1.1, 01 February 2006.

[WSS-Issues] OASIS Web Services Security Issues List, Version 90, 16 August 2006 http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/wss/download.php/19774/OASIS%20Web%20Services%20Security%20Issues%20List%2090.htm

1. Acknowledgments

Current Contributors:

Michael	Hu	Actional
Maneesh	Sahu	Actional
Duane	Nickull	Adobe Systems
Gene	Thurston	AmberPoint
Frank	Siebenlist	Argonne National Laboratory
Hal	Lockhart	BEA Systems
Denis	Pilipchuk	BEA Systems
Corinna	Witt	BEA Systems
Steve	Anderson	BMC Software
Rich	Levinson	Computer Associates
Thomas	DeMartini	ContentGuard
Merlin	Hughes	Cybertrust
Dale	Moberg	Cyclone Commerce
Rich	Salz	Datapower
Sam	Wei	EMC
Dana S.	Kaufman	Forum Systems
Toshihiro	Nishimura	Fujitsu
Kefeng	Chen	GeoTrust
Irving	Reid	Hewlett-Packard
Kojiro	Nakayama	Hitachi
Paula	Austel	IBM
Derek	Fu	IBM
Maryann	Hondo	IBM
Kelvin	Lawrence	IBM
Michael	McIntosh	IBM
Anthony	Nadalin	IBM
Nataraj	Nagaratnam	IBM
Bruce	Rich	IBM
Ron	Williams	IBM
Don	Flinn	Individual
Kate	Cherry	Lockheed Martin
Paul	Cotton	Microsoft
Vijay	Gajjala	Microsoft
Martin	Gudgin	Microsoft
Chris	Kaler	Microsoft
Frederick	Hirsch	Nokia
Abbie	Barbir	Nortel
Prateek	Mishra	Oracle
Vamsi	Motukuru	Oracle
Ramana	Turlapi	Oracle
Ben	Hammond	RSA Security
Rob	Philpott	RSA Security
Blake	Dournaee	Sarvega
Sundeep	Peechu	Sarvega
Coumara	Radja	Sarvega
Pete	Wenzel	SeeBeyond
Manveen	Kaur	Sun Microsystems
Ronald	Monzillo	Sun Microsystems
Jan	Alexander	Systinet
Symon	Chang	TIBCO Software
John	Weiland	US Navy
Hans	Granqvist	VeriSign
Phillip	Hallem-Baker	VeriSign
Hemma	Prafullchandra	VeriSign

Previous Contributors:

Peter	Dapkus	BEA
Guillermo	Lao	ContentGuard
TJ	Pannu	ContentGuard
Xin	Wang	ContentGuard
Shawn	Sharp	Cyclone Commerce
Ganesh	Vaideeswaran	Documentum
Tim	Moses	Entrust
Carolina	Canales-Valenzuela	Ericsson
Tom	Rutt	Fujitsu
Yutaka	Kudo	Hitachi
Jason	Rouault	HP
Bob	Blakley	IBM
Joel	Farrell	IBM
Satoshi	Hada	IBM
Hiroshi	Maruyama	IBM
David	Melgar	IBM
Kent	Tamura	IBM
Wayne	Vicknair	IBM
Phil	Griffin	Individual
Mark	Hayes	Individual
John	Hughes	Individual
Peter	Rostin	Individual
Davanum	Srinivas	Individual
Bob	Morgan	Individual/Internet2
Bob	Atkinson	Microsoft
Keith	Ballinger	Microsoft
Allen	Brown	Microsoft
Giovanni	Della-Libera	Microsoft
Alan	Geller	Microsoft
Johannes	Klein	Microsoft
Scott	Konersmann	Microsoft
Chris	Kurt	Microsoft
Brian	LaMacchia	Microsoft
Paul	Leach	Microsoft
John	Manferdelli	Microsoft
John	Shewchuk	Microsoft
Dan	Simon	Microsoft
Hervey	Wilson	Microsoft
Jeff	Hodges	Neustar
Senthil	Sengodan	Nokia
Lloyd	Burch	Novell
Ed	Reed	Novell
Charles	Knouse	Oblix
Vipin	Samar	Oracle
Jerry	Schwarz	Oracle
Eric	Gravengaard	Reactivity
Andrew	Nash	Reactivity
Stuart	King	Reed Elsevier
Martijn	de Boer	SAP
Jonathan	Tourzan	Sony
Yassir	Elley	Sun
Michael	Nguyen	The IDA of Singapore
Don	Adams	TIBCO
Morten	Jorgensen	Vordel