Apache Rampart/C 1.3.0 Released!

Apache Rampart/C 1.3.0 released today. You can find the release note below:

We are pleased to announce the release of Apache Rampart/C version 1.3.0.
You can download this release from
http://ws.apache.org/rampart/c/download.cgi

Key features
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1. Ability to send and verify UsernameTokens with
- Username and PlainText password
- Username and Digested password

2. Ability to send Timestamp tokens

3. SOAP message encryption
- With derived key support for improved security
- Symmetric and Asymmetric modes of operations
- Support for AES and Tripple DES encryption
- Signature encryption
- Keys encryption

4. SOAP message signature
- XML signature with RSA-SHA1
- Message authentication with HMAC-SHA1
- Signature confirmation support
- SOAP Header signing

5. WS-Security Policy (spec 1.1 & spec 1.2) based configurations
- Support for both Symmetric as well as Asymmetric policy bindings
- Support for different modes of key identifiers
- Support for different algorithm suites
[Basic128, Basic 192, Basic256, TrippleDES, Basic128Rsa15,
Basic192Rsa15,Basic256Rsa15, TripleDesRsa15]
- Support for IssuedToken assertion in client side.
- Support for SAMLToken assertion.

6. Replay detection support
- Easy to use built-in replay detection module
- Ability to deploy a customized replay detection module

7. Different protection orders
- Encrypt before signing
- Sign before encrypting

8. Extensible modules
- Password callback module
- Authentication module
- Credentials module
- Replay detection module
- Secure conversation token module

9. Keys management
- Support for X509 token profile
- Support for Key identifiers, Thumb prints, Issuer/Serial pairs,
Embedded and Direct references
- Support for PKCS12 keystore

10. WS-Secure Conversation Language support
- Establishing Security Context and thereby maintaining a session
- Per message key derivation
- Support for stored securtiy context token
- Rahas module support to give STS functionality to a service

11. WS-Trust Language support
- Security Token Services (STS)
- STS Client
- Server and Client entrophy support

12. SAML Support
- Support for Creation and Processing of SAML Core 1.1 Assertions
- SAML Token as Sign Supporting Token
- Signing and Encryption with SAML

10. Other
- Easy to use deployment scripts
- A comprehensive set of samples

Major Changes Since Last Release
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1. WS-Secure Conversation Language support
2. WS-Trust Language support
3. Rahas module to give STS support to a service
4. PKCS12 Keystore support
5. Security Policy 1.2 support
6. Memory leak fixes
7. Many bug fixes

Apache Rampart/C 1.3.0 works with the Apache Axis2/C 1.6.0
http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/download.cgi

Issues can be reported here.
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RAMPARTC

We welcome your early feedback.
Thank you for your interest in Rampart/C.

--Apache Rampart/C Team--
http://ws.apache.org/rampart/c/