Hi Susan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Liebeskind [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2013 14:07
> To: Andrei Shakirin
> Subject: Re: CXF WS-Trust/WS-SecureConversation security policy questions
> 
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> I have tried 3 times to post this to the CXF list, and 3 times it has been
> rejected as spam for no reason I can determine.  I have been having this
> problem since I joined the list, and mailed to [email protected],
> but not gotten a response. Therefore, I am replying just to you...

Hmm ... this is a bit strange. 

> 
> But do you know who manages the list so I could figure out what could be
> triggering this false positive from the Apache spam monitor? It's pretty
> frustrating.  The message I get looks like this...
> 
> 
> > I'm sorry to inform you that the message below could not be delivered.
> > When delivery was attempted, the following error was returned.
> >
> >
> > <[email protected]>: host mx1.eu.apache.org[192.87.106.230] said:
> 552 spam
> >      score (5.7) exceeded threshold
> >
> (HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS
> (in reply to end
> >      of DATA command)
> 
> -- snip snip snip - the post I cannot get on the list ---
> 

I have no idea what happens. It seems that the number of emails from your 
account exceed threshold, but do not know why.
Could you create appropriate issue for CXF project?

> 
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> 
> >> Do .NET clients play well with an XKMS server? Interoperability with
> >> .NET clients is an important concern for me.
> > I never tried XKMS in .Net, but as far as it is W3C standard, it should work
> also with .Net:
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972954.aspx
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/07/xkms-
> ws/dillaway/XKMSWorkshop_files/frame.ht
> > m http://pages.infinit.net/ctech/xkms-part2.html
> Yes but...it is not uncommon to have incompatible implementations of the
> standards, as we all know too well from bitter personal experience.
> Seeing how old some of these references are (one from July 2001), I am
> rather dubious that we can assume the same level of support appears in
> today's .NET 4.x Framework.

Sure, it very probably require some testing, configuration/adaptation efforts.
But XKMS seems to be the right way to get and validate the certificates in 
enterprise service environments.

> 
> I say this having gotten burned badly on something that worked with .NET
> 3.5 but not with .NET 4.0, something in the web service arena that Microsoft
> apparently invented. The issue in question pertains to the
> doc/literal/wrapped style of writing WSDL.  While the historical record
> suggests that doc/literal/wrapped was invented by Microsoft, as of .NET 4.0,
> the Microsoft equiv of WSDL2Java cannot generate proxy code from a
> doc/literal/wrapped WSDL. You have to "unwrap" the WSDL in order to get
> generated code now.
> 
> Point is: if Microsoft gave up on something they pushed into the web service
> community, color me dubious they'd keep up with support for one of the
> XML standards that never really gained much traction.
> >> XKMS does sound interesting, but it
> >> also sounds like XKMS would replace the certs issues by our existing
> >> PKI, and that wouldn't work for us.
> > XKMS doesn't replace PKI, but provide the façade for PKI:
> > http://ashakirin.blogspot.de/2013/04/cxf-security-getting-certificates
> > -from.html
> >
> > That means you can easily plug own lookup and validators into CXF XKMS
> implementation which will speak with your PKI.
> Easily is a matter of opinion  - *nothing* involving PKI has ever proved easy 
> :-
> )
> 
> For me, the potential risk of incompatible .NET issues, the use of an old
> standard which doesn't have tons of support, compared with the cost of
> having to distribute a few certificates (like we are already used to)..well, 
> it
> tips the scale in terms of staying with what I have.  I agree that what you 
> are
> talking about sounds like good match on paper for my requirements, but the
> tradeoff of time/energy/risk, I cannot recommend this approach for the
> work I'm doing between now and November While I am curious to know if it
> could be made to work, I'd have to do that on my own time, not company
> time.
> 

Ok, I understand your point.

> Thanks, Andrei - I would never have even known about this option unless
> you and Dennis hadn't brought it up.

You are welcome!

> 
> Cheers,
> Susan

Regards,
Andrei. 

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