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Brandon
Brandon

Reputation: 10953

How to secure RESTful calls from Silverlight?

I have a Silverlight application that I am sending/receiving sensitive data to some WCF RESTful endpoints. I know that someone can reverse engineer the Silverlight application to gain any keys so encryption/decryption might not be an option.

Are there any ways to secure the data apart from using HTTPS?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 222

Answers (2)

Dustin Davis
Dustin Davis

Reputation: 14585

Plenty, just depends on how much work you want to do. You can use signing via x509, encryption of the message using x509, request restriction (only allow access from xyz domain or ip) or a combination of all/some of those options.

Some of those will be less secure then others givin silverlight can be reversed so you might try obfuscation on your silverlight app.

Upvotes: 1

Dustin Davis
Dustin Davis

Reputation: 14585

You might also try RIA services if you don't need to expose the services to anyone else or this is on the same server.

Upvotes: 1

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