Web Services and the Security Issue - WS-Security

[ Thanks to Irish for this link. ] IBM and Microsoft just released specifications describing Web Services Security (WS-Security), or enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide quality of protection through message confidentiality and authentication.

IBM and Microsoft just released specifications describing Web Services Security (WS-Security), or enhancements to SOAP messaging to provide quality of protection through message confidentiality and authentication. There is a developerWorks overview document and a whitepaper describing this Web service security model.