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BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By : Steef-Jan Wiggers
Book Image

BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook

By: Steef-Jan Wiggers

Overview of this book

BizTalk enables the integration and managment of automated business processes within or across organizational boundaries. To build a solid BizTalk solution, deploy a robust environment, and keep it running smoothly you sometimes need to broaden your spectrum, explore all possibilities, and choose the best solution for your purpose. By following the recipes in this book you will gain required knowledge and succeed in your implementation. With BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook, you can leverage and hone your skills. More than 50 recipes will guide you in implementing BizTalk solutions, setting up a robust and well performing BizTalk environment, and choosing the right solution for monitoring it. As a developer or administrator you greatly benefit from taking these recipes to work. In this book a developer and administrator will see how to deploy, build, and maintain a BizTalk environment. How to apply patterns for robust orchestrations, messaging and testing. Administrators will learn to set up an environment using Microsoft best practices and tools to deliver a robust, performing and durable BizTalk environment. Besides setting up their environments administrators can also decide through a number of recipes how to monitor and maintain the environment. A developer can contribute to a healthy environment by implementing instrumentation in artefacts, applying well suited pattern(s) and testing the solutions built.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BizTalk Server 2010 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Encrypting and decrypting a message


In certain communication scenarios between two parties, you may need an encryption mechanism for outbound messages, as well as a decryption mechanism for the inbound messages. Information in messages can be of a sensitive nature or bound to privacy law. This can be data such as social security numbers, bank account numbers, addresses, phone numbers, and so on. The BizTalk Server offers encryption capabilities using certificates. These certificates contain cryptographic key pairs consisting of a public and a private key. The owner of a certificate, for instance BizTalk, can share the public key with communication partner(s). These partners use that public key to encrypt their messages. As the message can only be decrypted with the corresponding private key, the partner(s) are certain that the message can only be decrypted by the owner of the certificate. This means that the private key has to be kept secure and should be protected by the owner.

BizTalk can...