Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation Step by Step (Step By Step Developer Series)

In this chapter, you have seen how to use the features of WCF bindings to control the degree of protection afforded to a WCF service. You have seen how to configure encryption for messages flowing between a client application and a service, at the message level and at the transport level. You have learned how to specify the authentication mode for a binding and how to pass Windows credentials from a client application to a WCF service. You have also learned how to authorize access to operations for authenticated users and how to provide access to resources based on a user’s authenticated identity by using impersonation.