Dialog Security

As with any feature that sends data across the network, security is a vital part of the Service Broker infrastructure. Service Broker includes a number of security options that support the level of security appropriate to the network vulnerability and data criticality. Service Broker security must solve the unique issues presented by asynchronous messaging. Because the applications communicating over a Service Broker conversation might never be running at the same time, normal connection-oriented network security won’t provide the full range of security options required by Service Broker. This section describes how dialog security is implemented in the Service Broker and how to configure it.

Dialog security doesn’t make sense if ...

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