WCF "Simple" security

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Hi,

I am bit confused by some of the security options in WCF.

 

Are WSHttpBinding messages encrypted by default?

 

What is the simplest way to implement the following:

Secure transport (https? or is there some inbuilt encryption mechanism for messages)

Ensure integrity of message

Pass username/password

 

It is for an application that will be communicating over the internet to a web based service.

 

I dont want to use any of that generating certificate stuff as it looks a pain to deploy.**It would be nice to give some kind of session token as well so we would not have to authenticate the user each time.

 

I guess the most straight forward way is to use SSL and just pass a username, password into the service?

 

Thanks,

 

Alex

 

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