The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards of Billerica, Mass., has finished a draft security standard for Web services connecting disparate systems. Hal Lockhart, principal security engineer at BEA Systems Inc. of San Jose, Calif., said the OASIS membership could vote next month on the draft, which was released in October for public comment. Lockhart spoke yesterday at the Enterprise Architecture Boot Camp sponsored by the Interoperability Clearinghouse of Alexandria, Va. The standard covers functions as well as technologies. The functions include digital signatures, authentication and encryption. The underlying technologies include user names, passwords, X.509 tokens for public-key infrastructures and Simple Object Access Protocol Message Security. Full Story
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