Wednesday, January 31, 2007

A whole bunch of new features ...

We are ready to write next few chapters of Rampart/C after completing the first two phases.
The first phase of Rampart was to implement Usernametoken and TImestamps. In the second phase we supported SOAP message encryption. First two phases were successful and interoped well with the java counterpart. Meantime the OMXMLSec interoped with xmlsec. Good news ha...?
The third phase of Rampart is consisting of following steps.
1. SOAP message signature
2. SAML support
3. Security policy integration

I'm really looking forward to see these in Rampart/C. One disadvantage (well... ???)is that we have to implement everything from the scratch.For example we have to implement XML signature to support SOAP message signing, We have to implement a SAML library... but these are challenging stuff. On the other hand having own impls is much better than using a third party library. At leas t we know wht's going on...(No covers to open):)