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Securing a Web Service with X.509 certificate. Which is best?

I am quite a novice at this so please bear with me. I have a web service developed with WCF that will be consumed by non-.NET client. Currently I am looking to secure it. I have come to the conclusion the best option is to use WsHttpBinding and an X509 certificate. However, when it comes to obtaining a certificate I am a bit lost. Is a X509 the same as an SSL certificate? What it the best certificate I should be looking to get for such a scenario?

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  • Hiya hope these 2 will help you; I used it in my previous project; (Yes)

    http://www.phildev.net/ssl/ssl_talk_uuasc.pdf

    https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/1438/what-is-the-difference-between-an-x-509-client-certificate-and-a-normal-ssl-ce

    http://www.ipsec-howto.org/x595.html

    Chrees!