Beginning Security In Detail

So, deciding that I really should enter the security world proper, here's a bunch of reading materials and resources worth, er, reading. First, web services...

• Google search yielding good results: http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-GBGB299GB309&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=easy+web+service+security+.net

Articles I've lined up for absorption:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302409.aspx
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/webservices/WS-Security.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480545.aspx
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996415.aspx

Extending background knowledge:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA_hash_functions
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function#Cryptographic_hash_algorithms
• http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/