Day 6 – Chapter 4

Chapter four goes into security and how to implement it at the message and transport level. I am only doing half the chapter today since I stayed late at work and have no desire to stay up late again. Anyway, after a rather nice explanation of what security is on all levels the book also has a short spurt about windows security and authentication.

The next thing explained is transport level security and message level security. Transport level security is ussually done by the operating system. This means that your service will not even see the message if there is a problem. Message level security on the other hand is handled by the service.

The book actually has you work through the examples in reverse order. Message level security is implemented first, and transport level is implemented later. Message level security is kind of cool since a good chunk of the work is done by just changing the binding configuration. The transport level security is implemented by using SSL.

That’s all I got for tonight, I am exhausted.