OASIS ebXML Messaging Services TC

RE: [ebxml-msg] What Next?

  • 1.  RE: [ebxml-msg] What Next?

    Posted 04-11-2002 14:35
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    Subject: RE: [ebxml-msg] What Next?


    Title: RE: [ebxml-msg] What Next?
    Cliff, my responses are inline:
     
    >3 reasons.
     
    >1. This doesn't encode the SOAP Envelope. If you
    > want to obscure this information (the manifest
    > information, etc) you need to encrypt the entire
    > message.
     
    Actually, all HTTP headers and data, which includes the entire ebXML message, are encrypted within an SSL/TLS session.
     
    >2. What about SMTP?
     
    Appendix B of the ebMS spec addresses this, ref:

    An ebXML Message Service Handler MAY use transport layer encryption to protect the confidentiality of ebXML messages.  The IETF "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS" specification [RFC2487] provides the specific technical details and list of allowable options, which may be used.

     
    Note: RFC2487 has been replaced by RFC3207, ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3207.txt
     
     
    >3. What about multihop? Maybe you don't want 
    >the information available at the intermediate hop.
     
    It would seem to me that an intermediary needs access to the ebXML header information in order to perform it's role as an intermediary. Clearly one may not want an intermediary to have access to the business data contained in the payload container and that should be encrypted using PGP or S/MIME or something else.
     
     
    Dick Brooks
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