Application of formal methods to the analysis of web services security

  • Authors:
  • Llanos Tobarra;Diego Cazorla;Fernando Cuartero;Gregorio Díaz

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela Politécnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Superior de Albacete, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain

  • Venue:
  • EPEW'05/WS-FM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on European Performance Engineering, and Web Services and Formal Methods, international conference on Formal Techniques for Computer Systems and Business Processes
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Web Services technologies have introduced a new challenge for security protocols. Traditional security protocols cannot handle intermediaries and the flexibility of Web Services bindings. Thus, several proposals for introducing security in Web Services have been presented. One of these is Web Services Security. In this paper we illustrate how this protocol works, with an example, and analyse whether it is a good option guaranteeing the security of Web Services.