It's probably a bug. What does your security policy look like?

Colm.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Stefan Müller <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> in our project we have a conflict between two parties using different
> webservice frameworks.
> We use apache cxf (3.1.3).
>
> This is what happens:
> We use a WS-SecurityPolicy for all communication with a partner. This
> policy
> defines that attachments must be encrypted.
> The problem is now when we send a message without attachments with this
> policy, cxf creates a EncryptedKey element in the security header. But this
> EncryptedKey element (xenc:EncryptedKey
> xmlns:xenc="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#";) has no referencelist
> (which
> is correct) and is not associated with any element because we don't encrypt
> anything in this case.
>
> The other party rejects these messages because of this unnecessary
> EncryptedKey element.
>
>
> In my opinion this element is not necessary but it is not a bug and I can
> not find anything against it in the corresponding specs.
>
> What do you think about it. Is it a bug?
>
>
> Greets
>
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Colm O hEigeartaigh

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