Web Services Security:
SOAP Message Security 1.1
(WS-Security 2004)

OASIS Approved Errata, 01 November 2006

OASIS identifier:

wss-v1.1-errata-os-SOAPMessageSecurity

Location:

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

Technical Committee:

Web Service Security (WSS)

Chairs:

Kelvin Lawrence, IBM

              Chris Kaler, Microsoft

Editors:

Anthony Nadalin, IBM

Abstract:

This specification describes enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide message integrity and confidentiality.  The specified mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies.

 

This specification also provides a general-purpose mechanism for associating security tokens with message content.  No specific type of security token is required, the specification is designed to be extensible (i.e.. support multiple security token formats).  For example, a client might provide one format for proof of identity and provide another format for proof that they have a particular business certification.

 

Additionally, this specification describes how to encode binary security tokens, a framework for XML-based tokens, and how to include opaque encrypted keys.  It also includes extensibility mechanisms that can be used to further describe the characteristics of the tokens that are included with a message.

Status:

This is an OASIS Draft listing errata for the OASIS Standard produced by the Web Services Security Technical Committee. The standard was approved by the OASIS membership on 1 February 2006.

 

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Table of Contents

1      Issues Addressed. 5

2      Typographical/Editorial Errors. 6

2.1 Section 7.2  Direct References. 6

2.2 Section 7.3 Key Identifiers. 6

2.3 Section 8.6 Example. 6

2.4 Section 9.4.4. 6

2.5 Section 11 Extended Example. 6

3      Normative Errors. 7

3.1 Section 8.3 Signing Tokens. 7

3.2 Section 7.3 Key Identifiers. 7

4      References. 8

Appendix A: Acknowledgements. 10

Appendix B: Revision History. 13

 

The following issues related to the Web Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security 1.1 (WS-Security 2004) listed in the Web Services Committee Issues List [WSS-Issues] have been addressed in this document:

 

Issue

Description

455

Remove the #x509v3 table entry

459

Fix Typographical Errors

463

Fix Typographical Errors

 

2.1 Section 7.2  Direct References

Added brackets to element names wsse:SecurityTokenReference, wsse:Embedded <wsse:Reference and wsse:KeyIdentifier  on lines 938 and 939

2.2 Section 7.3 Key Identifiers

Line 980 changed:

The <wsse:KeyIdentifier> element SHALL is placed in the

to

The <wsse:KeyIdentifier> element SHALL be placed in the

2.3 Section 8.6 Example

Changed line 1514 from:

…#X509v3

to

http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0#X509v3

2.4 Section 9.4.4

Changed line 1776 from:

<wsse11:EncryptedHeader> then process as per section 9.5.2 Decryption and stop

to

<wsse11:EncryptedHeader> then process as per section 9.4.2 Decryption and stop

 

Changed line 1770 from:

Decrypt the contents of the <xenc:EncryptedData> element as per section 9.5.2

to

Decrypt the contents of the <xenc:EncryptedData> element as per section 9.4.2

2.5 Section 11 Extended Example

Changed line 1916 from:

…#X509v3

to

http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0#X509v3

 

Changed line 1929 from:

…#X509v3

to

http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0#X509v3

3.1 Section 8.3 Signing Tokens

Removed the #x509v3 table entry at line 1399 and then change the example in same document at lines 1514, 1915 and 1927 to http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0#X509v3.

3.2 Section 7.3 Key Identifiers

Changed table entry on line 1014 from

http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-soap-message-security-1.1#ThumbPrintSHA1

If the security token type that the Security Token Reference refers to already contains a representation for the thumbprint, the value obtained from the token MAY be used. If the token does not contain a representation of a thumbprint, then the value of the KeyIdentifier MUST be the SHA1 of the raw octets which would be encoded within the security token element were it to be included. A thumbprint reference MUST occur in combination with a required to be supported (by the applicable profile) reference form unless a thumbprint reference is among the reference forms required to be supported by the applicable profile, or the parties to the communication have agreed to accept thumbprint only references.

to

http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/oasis-wss-soap-message-security-1.1#ThumbprintSHA1

If the security token type that the Security Token Reference refers to already contains a representation for the thumbprint, the value obtained from the token MAY be used. If the token does not contain a representation of a thumbprint, then the value of the KeyIdentifier MUST be the SHA1 of the raw octets which would be encoded within the security token element were it to be included. A thumbprint reference MUST occur in combination with a required to be supported (by the applicable profile) reference form unless a thumbprint reference is among the reference forms required to be supported by the applicable profile, or the parties to the communication have agreed to accept thumbprint only references.

 

4       References

[GLOSS]                   Informational RFC 2828, "Internet Security Glossary," May 2000.

[KERBEROS]          J. Kohl and C. Neuman, "The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)," RFC 1510, September 1993, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1510.txt .

[KEYWORDS]         S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels," RFC 2119, Harvard University, March 1997.

[SHA-1]                     FIPS PUB 180-1.  Secure Hash Standard. U.S. Department of Commerce / National Institute of Standards and Technology. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-1/fip180-1.txt

[SOAP11]                 W3C Note, "SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol 1.1," 08 May 2000.

[SOAP12]                 W3C Recommendation, "SOAP Version 1.2 Part 1: Messaging Framework", 23 June 2003.

[SOAPSEC]              W3C Note, "SOAP Security Extensions: Digital Signature," 06 February 2001.

[URI]                          T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax," RFC 3986, MIT/LCS, Day Software, Adobe Systems, January 2005.

[XPATH]                    W3C Recommendation, "XML Path Language", 16 November 1999

 

The following are non-normative references included for background and related material:

[WS-SECURITY]     "Web Services Security Language", IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, April 2002.
"WS-Security Addendum", IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, August 2002.
"WS-Security XML Tokens", IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, August 2002.

[XMLC14N]              W3C Recommendation, "Canonical XML Version 1.0," 15 March 2001.

[EXCC14N]              W3C Recommendation, "Exclusive XML Canonicalization Version 1.0," 8 July 2002.

[XMLENC]                W3C Working Draft, "XML Encryption Syntax and Processing," 04 March 2002.

W3C Recommendation, “Decryption Transform for XML Signature”, 10 December 2002.

[XML-ns]                   W3C Recommendation, "Namespaces in XML," 14 January 1999.

[XMLSCHEMA]       W3C Recommendation, "XML Schema Part 1: Structures,"2 May 2001.
W3C Recommendation, "XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes," 2 May 2001.

[XMLSIG]                  D. Eastlake, J. R., D. Solo, M. Bartel, J. Boyer , B. Fox , E. Simon. XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, W3C Recommendation, 12 February 2002.

[X509]                       S. Santesson, et al,"Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Qualified Certificates Profile," http://www.itu.int/rec/recommendation.asp?type=items&lang=e&parent=T-REC-X.509-200003-I

[WSS-SAML]            OASIS Working Draft 06, "Web Services Security SAML Token Profile", 21 February 2003

[WSS-XrML]             OASIS Working Draft 03, "Web Services Security XrML Token Profile", 30 January 2003

[WSS-X509]             OASIS, “Web Services Security X.509 Certificate Token Profile”, 19 January 2004, http://www.docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-x509-token-profile-1.0

[WSSKERBEROS] OASIS Working Draft 03, "Web Services Security Kerberos Profile", 30 January 2003

[WSSUSERNAME] OASIS,”Web Services Security UsernameToken Profile” 19 January 2004, http://www.docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-username-token-profile-1.0

[WSS-XCBF]            OASIS Working Draft 1.1, "Web Services Security XCBF Token Profile", 30 March 2003

[XMLID]                     W3C Recommmendation, “xml:id Version 1.0”, 9 September 2005.

[XPOINTER]             "XML Pointer Language (XPointer) Version 1.0, Candidate Recommendation", DeRose, Maler, Daniel, 11 September 2001.

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Rev

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What

01

08-25-2006

Anthony Nadalin

Issue 455, 459, 463

 

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