WS-SecureConversation

WS-SecureConversation is a specification from the group of WS- * specifications. It is a specification for defining the creation and distribution of the security context for message layer encryption. A security context provides a shared secret with which messages are signed and encrypted (compare SSL ).

The WS-SecureConversation specification provides three different methods for creating the security context:

• Generation by Security Token Service (STS)
• Generation by one of the communication partners
• Generation through negotiation among the participants

Associated specifications

The following WS- * specifications are closely related to WS-SecureConversation:

• WS-Security
• WS-SecurityPolicy
• WS-Trust

Web links

• WS-SecureConversation Language specification (PDF; 198 kB)