Binary security token

The ValueType attribute identifies the type of the security token, for example, a LTPA token. The EncodingType type indicates how the security token is encoded, for example, Base64Binary. The BinarySecurityToken element defines a security token that is binary encoded. The encoding is specified using the EncodingType attribute. The value type and space are specified using the ValueType attribute. The WS-Security implementation for WAS, V6 and later supports LTPA,, LTPA version 2, and X.509 certificate binary security tokens.

A binary security token has the following attributes that are used for interpretation:

• Value type

• Encoding type

The following example depicts an LTPA binary security token in a WS-Security message header:

<wsse:BinarySecurityToken 
    xmlns:ns7902342339871340177=
     "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd"
     EncodingType="wsse:Base64Binary"
     ValueType="ns7902342339871340177:LTPA">
            MIZ6LGPt2CzXBQfio9wZTo1VotWov0NW3Za6lU5K7Li78DSnIK6iHj3hxXgrUn6p4wZI
            8Xg26havepvmSJ8XxiACMihTJuh1t3ufsrjbFQJOqh5VcRvI+AKEaNmnEgEV65jUYAC9
            C/iwBBWk5U/6DIk7LfXcTT0ZPAd+3D3nCS0f+6tnqMou8EG9mtMeTKccz/pJVTZjaRSo
            msu0sewsOKfl/WPsjW0bR/2g3NaVvBy18VlTFBpUbGFVGgzHRjBKAGo+ctkl80nlVLIk
            TUjt/XdYvEpOr6QoddGi4okjDGPyyoDxcvKZnReXww5UsoqlpfXwN4KG9as=
</wsse:BinarySecurityToken>
</wsse:Security>
</soapenv:Header>

As shown in the example, the token is Base64Binary encoded.

The following example depicts an LTPA version 2 binary security token:

<wsse:BinarySecurityToken 
  
    xmlns:wsu="http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd" 
  
    xmlns:wsst="http://www.ibm.com/websphere/appserver/tokentype" 
  wsu:Id="ltpa_20" 
  ValueType="wsst:LTPAv2">
    bRYI0Z59k/P1gIkgSaxeJIQoI1BdojxjdoD+6qMmiH37lqS6U90Wx6EArMA05FHVyTmxvIJACGD
    UVfqVcPDQCdPlWAn9Brhz/bXw9OEVx0wx/eNYQuiBvEVNam7urd8SxZkqppOZyeN6APZ4Z4Rox0M
    jqQv9lFIB/AKBpJyaK8V9Z9gFO8k6J5HmE/G9jdBov9Su6hXlfF50Bhy6tx8BEm4Zn/pkeNc1H1d+
    tOxwDOfS0ORWH0tjzDCTFpAMPjMmfR0/o7o3DivONtZG61ylbcwB4hx01iQC/FN5DJwrEy8kCwCeF
    ywubKVVt5pyM1k6uVXI8ik5Pjf9aU1ei86y5iXc9CirhvqosXiZvjObHTYKZSjtGiMYw3q9NKbZxs
    SzfCuAdht8sjGfaVo43i0iz7CuFYAywqVldUPjwSTvCGNtmWB/3MRtBDrmq3fqYSomjw5ZWDFex/n
    98ZaOz8mUjNHinJc4APTtEx6S10CxUkUc8b8hoCdqbcOGdZcGqYF7xgcFXvsezsXw0eRmhra54x6g
    CJs1skMMNvi0vF2pic1cg4GClQ74NKxV1oTrDZPaQPTikYGJOLKHBPYnbPda0hPkX+iCOYN0IIRBa
    Vwjj1T0G+Y/MgokiNJRGwUQ7VHXEo0+Q2HsmCkmAFrIp4lZc9fGcFyVY/EUBBpkGchL0eKNv4DoVJW
    6EhFXWZdeiVk8
</wsse:BinarySecurityToken>

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Related concepts

WS-Security provides message integrity, confidentiality, and authentication