Client Side Certificates for Web Services?

From: localhost (primpilus_at_cohort.ces)
Date: 10/25/04 

Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:22:30 -0400

Part 1:
I have a simple web service. I would like to protect the web
application by only allowing callers that have a client-side
certificate installed. How can I do that programmatically? I have no
access to the IIS metabase, so I need to do it in web.config or in my
application .cs code.

Part 2:
Assuming I can make Part 1 a success, I want to make a console app
that uses client-side certificates "on the fly" to access the web
service. I don't want a user to have to install a certificate with
any UI, I want to do it for them behind the scenes.

Thanks.

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