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Authentication

The following topics show a number of different mechanisms in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) that provide authentication, for example, Windows authentication, X.509 certificates, and user name and passwords.

In This Section

  • How to: Use the ASP.NET Membership Provider
    ASP.NET features include a membership and role provider, a database to store user name/password pairs for authentication, and user roles for authorization. This topic explains how WCF services can use the same database to authenticate and authorize users.
  • Service Identity and Authentication
    As an extra safeguard, a client can authenticate the service by specifying the expected identity of the service. If the expected identity and the identity returned by the service do not match, authentication fails.

Reference

System.ServiceModel

Common Security Scenarios

See Also

Concepts

Security Overview


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Last Published: 2010-03-21