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How the Consumer Uses the Assertion

The assertion is passed by the authentication service to the web service consumer for use in subsequent web service requests. Because the requesting SOAP document contains the assertion and the XML document, the web service request is highly secure and can be readily validated by other web services hosted by the same Policy Server.