Implementing a WCF Client with Certificate-Based Mutual Authentication without using Windows Certificate Store
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides a relatively simple way to implement Certificate-Based Mutual Authentication on distributed clients and services. Additionally, it supports interoperability as it is based on WS-Security and X.509 certificate standards. This blog post briefly summarises mutual authentication and covers the steps to implement it with an IIS hosted WCF service.
Even though WCF’s out-of-the-box functionality removes much of the complexity of Certificate-Based Mutual Authentication in many scenarios, there are cases in which this is not what we need.… [Keep reading] “Implementing a WCF Client with Certificate-Based Mutual Authentication without using Windows Certificate Store”