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WS-Security Username Token Profile is a simple authentication scheme for SOAP-webservices using username an password sent in the requests‘ WS-Security headers. The password is hashed using a salt and a timestamp (password digest) to prevent replay attacks. It is specified in this document. As this does not involve any message encryption it should not be used without transport encryption.
In this post I will show how I configured this for a webservice to be deployed on a recent Weblogic Server (12.2.1.2).

Key words:IT-Security, Security Challenges, OPSS Architecture, WebLogic Server, JAAS, JAAS LoginModules, Authentication, Basic Authentication, Certificate Authentication, Digest Authentication, perimeter Authentication…