Why Encrypt SOAP messages

A sample SOAP response message shown in Listing 1 . This message contains unencrypted data that prying eyes could access as the message is transferred over the wire. By using the custom SOAP parameter encryption class we'll discuss here, specific parts of the SOAP message can be encrypted to protect the data during the transfer from the Web service to the client (see Listing 2 ). Although there are several ways to encrypt data, the application we're using as an example uses asymmetric...