Application Security Arena

WCF Security References

WCF security http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms732362.aspx WCF with x509 http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms733137.aspx Using client credentials http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=SecuringWCFService Delegation Read More...

Where is my private key ?

A lot of errors are coming up while working with X509. there is a lot of confusion of where do I need to store the certificate ? where is my private key ? the common error is that developers installs the private key to a location that the program not Read More...

WCF Supporting Tokens

The Supporting Tokens sample demonstrates how to add additional tokens to a message that uses WS-Security. The example adds an X.509 binary security token in addition to a username security token. The token is passed in a WS-Security message header from Read More...

how to get AlternativeName and UPN from X509 certificate

using X509NameType Enumeration you can extract all the fields from a x509 certificate. this enum is new for .net 2.0 here is the code: using System; using System.Security.Cryptography; using System.Security.Permissions; using System.IO; using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates; Read More...