Identifying Opportunities for Web Services Security Performance Optimizations

WS-Security is an essential component of the Web services protocol stack. WS-Security provides end-to-end security properties, thereby assuring the participation of nonsecure transport intermediaries in message exchanges, a key advantage in Web-based systems. However, compared to point-to-point secure messaging with TLS, WS-Security has a significant performance penalty. In this paper, we identify several opportunities for optimizing WS-Security.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SERVICES
• Authors: Robert A. van Engelen, Wei Zhang
• Keywords: End-to-end Security Properties, Nonsecure Transport Intermediaries, SERVICES 2008, Web Services Protocol Stack