WCF Transport Security With Certificate Authentication — Test Validation With MSTest V2

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This post demonstrates the use of X.509 certificates for server and client authentication when using WCF transport security. This security mode is ideal for communication between enterprise applications inside the intranet network.

Our demo creates a service that will implement a simple, repeated string algorithm. In this scenario, the service is hosted under Internet Information Services (IIS), which is configured with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and configured with an SSL certificate to allow clients to verify the identity of the server [1].