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Using Certificates for Conversation Encryption

In Listing 50.4, you might have noticed that you set the ENCRYPTION = OFF flag in the code of the initiator. You had to do this because Service Broker relies heavily on certificate-based encryption. If you had left the encryption flag set to its default of ON, your messages would not have left their transmission queue, and Service Broker would have raised an error.

Service Broker services running on multiple SQL Server instances communicate across the network via endpoints that are secured using certificates. Certificates are the foundation of secure network communications. They are used for securing email (PGP), FTP (S/FTP), HTTP (SSL), .NET assemblies (strong naming), and more. The basic premise ...