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.
- Technical specifications for WS-SecureConversation can be found at
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