Programmatic WCF Message Security with Certificates

Question

I\'ve written a self-hosted WCF service using WSHttpBindings and I\'m trying to implement message-level security using certificates I\'ve generated myself. Unfortunately I\'m g

Answer 1

this msdn article helped tremendously. I think the root of the problem was setting the following message security parameters to false:

httpBinding.Security.Message.NegotiateServiceCredential = false;
httpBinding.Security.Message.EstablishSecurityContext = false;

So now the overall code for the server side looks more like:

var httpBinding = new WSHttpBinding(SecurityMode.Message);
httpBinding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType = MessageCredentialType.Certificate;
httpBinding.Security.Message.NegotiateServiceCredential = false;
httpBinding.Security.Message.EstablishSecurityContext = false;
var httpUri = new Uri("http://serviceaddress");
_host = new ServiceHost(this, httpUri);
_host.Credentials.ServiceCertificate.SetCertificate(StoreLocation.LocalMachine, StoreName.TrustedPeople, X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, serverThumbprint);
_host.Credentials.ClientCertificate.Authentication.RevocationMode = X509RevocationMode.NoCheck;
_host.Credentials.ClientCertificate.Authentication.TrustedStoreLocation = StoreLocation.LocalMachine;
_host.AddServiceEndpoint(typeof(IMetaService), httpBinding, httpUri);
_host.Open();

and the client side:

var httpBinding = new WSHttpBinding(SecurityMode.Message);
httpBinding.Security.Message.ClientCredentialType = MessageCredentialType.Certificate;
httpBinding.Security.Message.NegotiateServiceCredential = false;
httpBinding.Security.Message.EstablishSecurityContext = false;
var httpUri = new Uri("http://serviceaddress");
var httpEndpoint = new EndpointAddress(httpUri, EndpointIdentity.CreateDnsIdentity("name of server cert"));
var newFactory = new ChannelFactory<IMetaService>(httpBinding, httpEndpoint);
newFactory.Credentials.ClientCertificate.SetCertificate(StoreLocation.LocalMachine, StoreName.TrustedPeople, X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, "client certificate thumbprint");
newFactory.Credentials.ServiceCertificate.SetDefaultCertificate(StoreLocation.LocalMachine, StoreName.TrustedPeople, X509FindType.FindByThumbprint, "server certificate thumbprint");
var channel = newFactory.CreateChannel();