The labyrinth of security features for WCF is intricate and at times even overwhelming. At its core, however, are a basic set of security principals for authentication, authorization, and message transfer protection.
by Michèle Leroux Bustamante
January 16, 2007
indows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for the .NET Framework 3.0.
With WCF, SOAP messages can be transmitted over a variety of supported protocols including IPC (named pipes), TCP, HTTP and MSMQ. Like any distributed messaging platform, you must establish security policies for protecting messages and for authenticating and authorizing calls. This article will discuss how WCF accomplishes this.
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indows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a secure, reliable, and scalable messaging platform for the .NET Framework 3.0.
