Re: Markers and SOAP headers

Rich Salz wrote:

>>     * Traffic is meant to be secured.  In this case, the empty 2xx
>>       marker reveals information (namely that there was no fault), while
>>       an encrypted SOAP message response doesn't.
>
>
> This only if the encrypted SOAP message is roughly the same length as
> fault message.  I think the right answer to address this concern is
> SSL/TLS, which probably obscures the plaintext size enough to thwart
> this kind of traffic analysis.
>
>     /r$
>
I mostly agree.  On the other hand, we are offering WS-Security as its
own layer, and it's certainly possible to specify an encryption
algorithm that adds arbitrary amounts of padding.

Really just a matter of finding the right wrench to pound the screw in
question.

Received on Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:34:40 UTC