what is the issuer secret when my service identity is configured to use certificates?

Question

right now, i'm hosting my WCF on-premise service to the Service Bus using a shared secret. the service identity for my Service Bus' ACS has two types of credentials setup.

Password & X.509 Certificate.

When I am hosting my on-premise onto the SB, i use a shared secret (password) as the issuer secret. (issuer name is 'owner')

  var transportClientEndpointBehavior = new TransportClientEndpointBehavior();
  transportClientEndpointBehavior.TokenProvider = 
  TokenProvider.CreateSharedSecretTokenProvider(issuerName, issuerSecret);

what is the issuer secret if i have to use the X.509 Certificate as the trust mechanism?

all the online examples/samples use the password as the secret.

my on-premise service will have the pfx copy of this certificate, configured in SB ACS. please let me know.

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Cheers!

Answer 1

You can follow this thread -

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazureconnectivity/thread/b45cb1ef-0ab0-4e8c-82c2-66e66c687bb1

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Primary problem with my approach was that I didn't need to retrieve a token from ACS before I connect to the SB. Instead, I create a token by myself and and use that to connect to the SB. Basically, I created a SAML token and signed it with my certificate.

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You will need to send the SAML token created above to ACS to gat back a SWT token.

This SWT token can be added to the message sent to Service Bus.

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Rohit Singh