WS-SecureConversation describes how message exchanges can be securely managed. It is a relatively new entry to WebServicesSecurity, but it appear to have been adopted by Open Grid Services Infrastructure as part of the business conducted in a "virtual organization".
- see p68 of Mar04 document at
- BobSutor? from IBM said "Together with WS-Federation and WS-Authorization, WS-SecureConversation deal with how customers connect computing systems that use different underlying security technologies."
- One significance of this set of WebServicesSecurity technologies is to allow management of resources by an external partnering firm that uses a different digital ID system.
WS-
SecureConversation requires the use of WS-Trust as a corequisite to
WebServicesSecurity.
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