A new secure token for enhancing web service security

This paper proposes a new secure token for improving the existing Web Service Security standards which provide message integrity and message confidentiality. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is widely adopted and most of them use Web Services implemented using a Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), an XML document or message exchanges between sender and receiver using HTTP protocol. Security is critical because the message is transferred around a public network, the Internet. Whilst current Web Service Security Standards protect the message; the location of the message sender is not authenticated, this can be provided using the proposed token.