Binary security tokens

A binary security token has the following attributes that are used to interpret it:

• ValueType
  The ValueType attribute identifies the type of the security token, for example, an LTPA token.

• Encoding Type
  The EncodingType indicates how the security token is encoded, for example, Base64Binary. The BinarySecurityToken element defines a security token that is binary encoded.

The Web services security implementation for WebSphere Application Server - Express supports both LTPA and X.509 certificate binary security tokens.

The following example shows an LTPA binary security token in a Web services security message header:

<wsse:BinarySecurityToken 
 xmlns:ns7902342339871340177=http://www.ibm.com/websphere/appserver/tokentype/5.0.2" 
 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.