Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed

Chapter 7. Security Basics

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• Introduction

• Basic Tasks in Securing Communications

• Transport Security and Message Security

• Using Transport Security

• Using Message Security

• Impersonation and Authorization

• Impersonation

• Authorization

• References

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Introduction

This first chapter on the security facilities provided by the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is meant to do two things. First, it is intended to show how to use those facilities to accomplish basic tasks in securing communications. Then the chapter will explain how the various security mechanisms in the Windows Communication Foundation fit together conceptually as part of an ingenious, extensible, and pioneering whole.

Basic Tasks in Securing Communications ...