Encryption in C# Web-Services

c#, encryption, security, web-services

Solution

I think this can help; last year we used this to compress the webservices and it performed very well, I believe it could be enhanced with encryption classes;

Creating Custom SOAP Extensions - Compression Extension

Problem

I'm looking for a simple way to encrypt my soap communication in my C# Web-Service. I was looking into WSE 3.0 but it seems Microsoft dropped support for it, and therefore it's not straightforward to use. It seems WCF could've been an option but I prefer not to upgrade from .NET 2.0 . Any simple, straightforward encryption method?

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