Non-Blocking Signature of very large SOAP Messages

TL;DR

This paper introduces a non-blocking signature method for large SOAP messages, significantly improving performance in secure, data-intensive service-oriented applications like e-health by enabling stream-like processing.

Contribution

It presents a novel non-blocking signature generation technique that allows stream processing of large SOAP messages, addressing efficiency issues with existing standards.

Findings

Achieves significant performance improvements in signature processing.

Enables stream-like processing of large SOAP messages.

Improves efficiency of security in large data transfer services.

Abstract

Data transfer and staging services are common components in Grid-based, or more generally, in service-oriented applications. Security mechanisms play a central role in such services, especially when they are deployed in sensitive application fields like e-health. The adoption of WS-Security and related standards to SOAP-based transfer services is, however, problematic as a straightforward adoption of SOAP with MTOM introduces considerable inefficiencies in the signature generation process when large data sets are involved. This paper proposes a non-blocking, signature generation approach enabling a stream-like processing with considerable performance enhancements.