maybe question is stupid but…. i would like to know if exists a way to hide or encrypt data in a soap message. I want to prevent as much as possible classic problem about “man in the middle”. So, i don’t want “middle man” can understand my data. I thought about using an encryption function for merging all data of each element node with a symmetric key. And maybe it can be a solution, but my question is…. exists in ksoap a way to manage somekind of encryption/security ? If not, can you tell me a possible solution ?
Thx for your time
I agree with Thomas, if you are just worried about classical man in the middle attack, all you need is HTTPS.
And some comments on terminology:
Hash functions can’t be used to encrypt data. They are one way functions, meaning that you can take a hash of data, but you can’t get a data our of hash.
If you have shared key and use it to encrypt data, this is called symmetric encryption.
kSOAP2 is a SOAP library. It doesn’t know about encryption.
However, if you want to encrypt some particular piece of data, you can do it with other libraries/API and send it as part of SOAP message.