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Acronym Expansion

Web Services Security Language

Description

The WS-Security specification describes additional mechanisms to SOAP messaging to provide message integrity, message confidentiality, and single message authentication. These mechanisms can be used to accommodate a wide variety of security models and encryption technologies. WS-Security also provides a general-purpose mechanism for associating security tokens with messages. No specific type of security token is required by WS-Security. It is designed to be extensible (e.g. support multiple security token formats). For example, a client might provide proof of identity and proof that they have a particular business certification.

Other specification

http://msdn.microsoft.com...spec/html/ws-security.asp