<peer> of <clientCredentials> Element

Specifies credentials used when authenticating peer-to-peer clients.

Schema Hierarchy

<peer>
  <certificate/>
  <peerAuthentication/>
  <messageSenderAuthentication/>
</peer>

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

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Element	Description
<certificate> Element	Specifies an X.509 certificate to use for signing and encrypting messages for peer-to-peer clients. .
<peerAuthentication> Element	Specifies authentication options for peer clients.
<messageSenderAuthentication> element	Specifies authentication options for message senders.

Element	Description
<clientCredentials>	Specifies the credentials used to authenticate a client to a service.

This configuration element specifies the credentials that a peer node uses to authenticate itself to other nodes in the mesh, as well as authentication settings that a peer node uses to authenticate other peer nodes. For more information, see Peer Channel Message Authentication and Best Practices for Securing PeerChannel Applications.