Ws Trust

Introduction This blog post expands on delegation and related concepts introduced in my Kerberos Delegation blog post. It also brings together two blog series I’ve been working on over the years: SAML2 vs. JWT Series and Kerberos and Windows Security Series. Delegation is a critical building block…

Strictly for IS versions 5.11.0-m25+ Why is it provided as a connector? WS-Trust functionality has been implemented a long time back in WSO2 Identity Server and it contains outdated dependencies which will not have the latest security security fixes. So because of that we have moved this as a connector to avoid exposure of those…

As you all know that WSO2 Identity Server uses the STS(Security Toke Service) as an implementation for WS-Trust which is capable of issuing SAML1.1 and 2.0 tokens. This API can be secured with any WS-Security mechanism. …

Use Case — Let me describe a user story to solve this interesting problem that I came across. If you have Code First Webservice OR WSDL Contract based WebService, you will be responding to your client requests with a SOAP response. In my case, it was a WS-Trust Security Token Web Service and…

WS-Trust and STS (Security Token Service) are two of the many terms I often came across when I started learning Identity and Access Management concepts. What is WS-Trust?… and what is STS? Do they mean the same thing?… if not, how do they relate to each other? These are the…

To begin, we define, what is “trust”? Simply, Trust is the expression between two men that one man believes in claims those made by another one. In respect of web services, trust often refers to the likelihood that the receiver of a message which enclosed a security token will believe…