Transport and Message Security in WCF

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10/23/2011 1:15:35 AM

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This post discusses about transport and message security. In Transport Security user credentials and claims are passed using transport layer. The transport protocols are TCP, HTTP, MSMQ and IPC. Each of these protocols have their own mechanism for passing user credentials. The most common approach is using secure socket layer(SSL) for encrypting the details which sent over HTTPS.

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vijayst
10/23/2011 1:17:37 AM
While using WCF, Security can be applied at the transport level or at the message level. This post gives a good understanding of the pros and cons of applying transport level security and message level security.