Monthly Archives: April 2008

P2P, PNRP, Teredo…the Motivation

Posted on April 30, 2008 by

Since I started playing around with computers, communication of machines over a “wire” has been fascinating to me. This is probably why I ended up in the distributed applications space. Typically clients talk to servers and servers to servers – … Continue reading →

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Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims

Posted on April 28, 2008 by

This little helper might be useful when you are working with ADFS, but want to use the IdentityModel types in your app: public static ClaimSet ToClaimSet(this SingleSignOnIdentity identity){    List<Claim> claims = new List<Claim>();     claims.Add(new Claim(identity.NameType, identity.Name, Rights.Identity));     foreach … Continue reading →

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Ein Session Abstract ganz genau nach meinem Geschmack

Posted on April 22, 2008 by

Gesehen auf der JAX2008 Webseite: Security Last – Sicherheitsentscheidungen spät treffenSicherheitsanforderungen wie Logins und Berechtigung sind wichtig – aber müssen diese wirklich gleich am Anfang umgesetzt werden? Das nachträgliche Hinzufügen dieser Anforderungen mit reinem Java und OOP ist sehr schwierig, … Continue reading →

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Token Kidnapping

Posted on April 20, 2008 by

Interesting…and shocking. Read more here: http://www.argeniss.com/research/TokenKidnapping.pdf

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Installing an IIS 7 Extension

Posted on April 20, 2008 by

Related to cleaning up my authentication module for Codeplex, I needed a way to (semi) automatically install a complete IIS extension (including schema, config sections and management extensions). I came up with a batch file that does the necessary steps … Continue reading →

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Custom Basic Authentication is now on Codeplex

Posted on April 19, 2008 by

I also moved my “Basic Authentication against non-Windows accounts for IIS” (phew) project to Codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/CustomBasicAuth Again, if you have feature ideas or want to contribute, contact me.  

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InfoCardSelector is now on Codeplex

Posted on April 16, 2008 by

I finally found a new home for my ASP.NET InfoCard control: http://www.codeplex.com/InfoCardSelector If you feel like contributing or suggesting new features, you can contact me via this page.

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Developing ASP.NET Applications in Medium Trust

Posted on April 12, 2008 by

Alex Smolen did a good write up of the various approaches for sandboxing ASP.NET applications. Recommended!

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Beware of Whitespaces in WAS Configuration

Posted on April 3, 2008 by

This took me a while to solve… In the WAS configuration dialog there must be NO whitespaces in the enabled protocols configuration. Otherwise you will get this error: “Could not find a base address that matches scheme net.tcp for the … Continue reading →

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