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Cryptographic agility in WCF security

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The CryptoAgility sample shows how to specify in a standard/custom algorithm to provide a cryptographic agile implementation in a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) client and service. The sample is composed of the following projects:

Service

This is a self-hosted WCF service that implements the ICalculator interface and secures the endpoint using the WSHttpBinding with secure session and reliable session disabled. The service defines a custom SecurityAlgorithmSuite class to specify the cryptographic algorithms to be used for message security.

Client

This is a WCF client that accesses the service after successful authentication. It invokes the operations exposed by the ICalculator interface and implemented by the service. The client also defines the same custom SecurityAlgorithmSuite class to specify the cryptographic algorithms to be used for message security.

To use this sample

  1. Open the CryptoAgility.sln solution in Visual Studio 2012.

  2. Press Ctrl+Shift+B to build the solution.

  3. Open File Explorer and navigate to the \WCF\Basic\Security\CryptoAgility\Service\bin directory and run the service.exe file with administrator privileges by right-clicking service.exe and selecting Run as administrator.

  4. Navigate to \WCF\Basic\Security\CryptoAgility\Client\bin directory and run the client.exe file normally.

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