Securing WCF Service with Self Signed Certificates Programmatically

using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

namespace Certificate.Configuration
{
    public class CertificatesSection : ConfigurationSection
    {
        internal const string serializedCertificateConfigName = "certificate";
        internal const string trustedCertificatesConfigName = "trustedCertificates";

        [ConfigurationProperty(serializedCertificateConfigName, IsRequired=true)]
        public String SerializedCertificate
        {
            get
            {
                return (String)this[serializedCertificateConfigName];
            }

            set
            {
                this[serializedCertificateConfigName] = value;
            }
        }

        public X509Certificate2 Certificate
        {
            get
            {
                X509Certificate2 result = null;
                if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(this.SerializedCertificate))
                {
                    throw new ConfigurationErrorsException("Please provide Certificate!");
                }
                try
                {
                    var serializer = new CertificateSerializer();
                    result = serializer.Deserialize(this.SerializedCertificate);
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    throw new ConfigurationErrorsException(string.Format("Error deserializing the provider certificate: {0}",
                        ex.Message), ex);
                }
                return result;
            }
        }

        [ConfigurationProperty(trustedCertificatesConfigName)]
        public TrustedCertificateInfoCollection TrustedCertificates
        {
            get
            {
                return (TrustedCertificateInfoCollection)base[trustedCertificatesConfigName];
            }
        }
    }
}