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Monday, October 06, 2008 5:00 AM

Common Problems Composing Security with Streaming

Security and streaming are two features that often do not get along with each other. Although the concepts are not inherently in conflict, their implementations often do things that cause problems for the optimal execution of the other. You may have seen
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:00 AM

WCF Security Guide Released

If you've been following along, I have mentioned the WCF security guide project being worked on in the patterns and practices team a few times now. After months of drafts and betas, the complete guide is now ready for official release. The WCF security
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 5:00 AM

Configuring SSL Host Headers

Host headers in IIS are a way to associate multiple names with a single address. The typical use of host headers is to be able to host more than one web site at a single IP address by giving each of the web sites a distinct DNS name. Host headers also
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:00 AM

Improving Web Services Security Beta Guide

The WCF Security Guide content that I've mentioned a few times before is now done with early drafts and has been rolled up into a beta release of the full book. There's a ton of content in the real thing on top of what you've been seeing in the drafts.
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:00 AM

Updates to WCF Security Guidance

After the first announcement for the WCF Security Guidance Project , the amount of content has grown tremendously. Here's a summary of what's new over the last month. Seven new application scenarios: Intranet - Web to Remote WCF Using Transport Security
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Friday, April 25, 2008 5:00 AM

Messaging Additions in Orcas

I've had scattered posts in the past talking about the messaging features and enhancements in Orcas. Over the next few days I'm going to be doing a bit of consolidating to organize that information into a few listings of the top changes using reasonably
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Monday, March 31, 2008 5:00 AM

WCF Security Guidance Project

The patterns & practices team at Microsoft has put together their first release of guidance for WCF security . They've included how-to guides and videos that walk you through a number of security tasks, such as working with certificates and configuring
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 3 Comments
Monday, March 10, 2008 5:00 AM

Configuring Protection Level

Is it possible to configure the protection level for message parts at runtime? Only certain configurations make doing this particularly easy. When using transport security with Windows credentials, the WindowsStreamSecurityBindingElement allows you to
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Friday, March 07, 2008 5:00 AM

Customizing Exceptions for Validation

How do I customize the exception text sent back from a custom password validator? If you've looked at the documentation for UserNamePasswordValidator, then the instructions tell you to implement the validator by overriding the Validate method and throwing
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Monday, March 03, 2008 5:00 AM

Sending to MSMQ with Integrated Authentication

What are the rules for when a client needs to support Active Directory integration for sending to an MSMQ queue? The circumstances may seen mysterious for when you need the client to be joined to a domain to take advantage of Active Directory integration,
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
Monday, February 18, 2008 5:00 AM

Scopes of Encryption

This article is primarily an introduction on protecting message data since the topic overall seems to cause some confusion. The source of confusion is what it means for a service to define a contract for protecting data. Data protection flows from two
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Monday, January 14, 2008 5:00 AM

Custom Password Validation for HTTP

Phil Henning has written about creating a custom username/password validator for HTTP , which is another new feature in Orcas. Like getting access to client IP addresses , creating a custom password validator is a feature added as a result of direct customer
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
Monday, December 31, 2007 5:00 AM

Mapping Credentials to Authentication Schemes

You may have noticed that an HTTP binding is configured with an HttpClientCredentialType whereas an HTTP binding element is configured with an AuthenticationScheme. How are these two settings related? If you want to switch between a custom binding and
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 3 Comments
Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:00 AM

Session Security

How often does authorization occur? Authorization is typically scoped to either messages or sessions. When authorization is scoped to messages, then an authorization request occurs each time a message is sent. When authorization is scoped to sessions,
Posted by Nicholas Allen | 1 Comments
Monday, October 15, 2007 5:00 AM

Configuring SSL Certificates for Windows Vista

The documentation for configuring a port with an SSL certificate shows example commands using the httpcfg.exe program. Starting with Windows Vista, httpcfg.exe was replaced in function by the netsh program that comes with the operating system. This is
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