Thursday, October 04, 2007

Apache Rampart/C 1.0 Unleashed !!!

Unleashed to protect SOAP messages.

Yes. Rampart/C as the security module for Apache Axis2/C, provides it's users a way to protect their SOAP messages from intruders, spies and even hypocrites(hmm... bad people everywhere). :)
It provides Authentication, Confidentiality, Non-repudiation for messages with a minimum effort in configurations.

Rampart/C 1.0 is based on the WS-Security Specification 1.0.
It also encapsulates features of
  • Username Token Profile 1.1
  • X509 Token Profile 1.1
  • Ws-Security Policy Specification 1.0

Rampart/C is also the security module for WSF/C and WSF/PHP frameworks.

You may download it here
http://ws.apache.org/rampart/c/download.cgi

Key features of the release
  1. Ability to send and verify UsernameTokens with
    1. PlainText password
    2. Digested password
  2. Ability to send Timestamp tokens
  3. SOAP message encryption
  4. SOAP message signature
  5. WS Security Policy based configurations

Major changes since last release
  1. Memory leak fixes
  2. Many bug fixes
  3. Signature Encryption
  4. Signing specific headers
  5. Sign before encryption
  6. Encryption before signing
  7. Replay detection support
  8. Improvements to the context model
  9. Authentication module implementation
  10. Credentials module implementation
  11. Improvements to Key/Certificate loading mechanisms
  12. Easy to use deployment scripts
  13. WS-Security Policy (Spec 1.1) based configurations

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