Security Features of WCF: (WCF Part 10)

	This Time I’ll be focusing more on the Security Part in WCF. WCF provides comprehensive security features in three main areas: transfer security, authentication and authorization of clients, and auditing.   Security Modes of WCF: WCF can provide authentication, privacy, and integrity for messages by using two mechanisms: Transport mode: which uses the security features of a transport layer such as HTTPS. This mode has performance benefits due to the optimized nature of the underlying protocols, but it has a restricted set of credential or claim types. This mode also only works between two transport endpoints. Message mode: which protects the message itself by using a protocol such as WS-Security. You can specify the security for a binding by setting its SecurityMode property. By default, the BasicHttpBinding has no security configured. Other HTTP bindings use WS-Security, and TCP and Named Pipe bindings use Windows security. You can use the .NET PrincipalPermission attribute to restrict access to an operation based on name, role, or authentication status.
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