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 4

2Editorial/Typographical Corrections 5

3Corrections to Non-Normative Content 6

4Corrections to Normative Content 7

5References 8

Appendix A. Acknowledgments 9



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:

Issue

Description

463

Errors in WSS-Security specification and profile. (sent to Kelvin)

464

Assertion substitution and holder-of-key

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

1Two holder-of-key confirmed assertions are equivalently confirmed if they may be confirmed using the same confirmation key.

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