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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
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Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
September 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
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Using Certificates for Conversation Encryption

In Listing 49.4, 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 ...

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