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I'm trying to dig into the messages that are exchanged when you sign a message using Windows credentials. I've modified the default service that is provided when you create a WCF service to use the following binding:

<wsHttpBinding>
  <binding name="MyBinding">
    <security mode="Message">
      <message clientCredentialType="Windows" />
    </security>
  </binding>
</wsHttpBinding>

I'm requiring the client to sign the message via the ServiceContract attribute:

[ServiceContract(ProtectionLevel=ProtectionLevel.Sign)]

My client is using the same exact binding as the service.

My question is this: When I use Fiddler to watch the traffic between client and service, why do I see five exchanges, and what does each of them do?

I'm including an example of all of the exchanges for completeness. Because of the size, I've put it on pastebin; you can see it here.

Edit: Looks like the first four exchanges relate to WS-Trust.

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