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How To: Implement HMAC Authentication On a RESTful WCF Service

There are several approaches in implementing authentication in RESTful WCF services. Using SSL and Digest Authentication are two options, while in this post I would like to demonstrate another approach which uses HMAC (Hash Message Authentication Code) in order to achieve both message authentication and integrity. In this approach the server provides the client an ID and a secret key through some technique (e.g. sending an email containing the ID and the secret key) which will be used by the client...
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