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Explain different modes of security in WCF? Or Explain the difference between Transport and Message Level Security.?

Thavaselvan P

Thavaselvan P

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    In Windows Communication Foundation, we can configure to use security at different levelsa. Transport Level security means providing security at the transport layer itself. When dealing with security at Transport level, we are concerned about integrity, privacy and authentication of message as it travels along the physical wire. It depends on the binding being used that how WCF makes it secure because most of the bindings have built-in security. b. Message Level SecurityFor Tranport level security, we actually ensure the transport that is being used should be secured but in message level security, we actually secure the message. We encrypt the message before transporting it. It totally depends upon the requirements but we can use a mixed security mode also as follows: