Category Archives: Katana

End of IdentityServer3 free Support

Back in 2017 we announced the end of IdentityServer3 maintenance. This excluded security bug fixes. As of the 1st of July 2019 Microsoft officially ended support for Katana 3. This means that the platform we originally built-against is now unsupported … Continue reading

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Validating Scopes in ASP.NET 4 and 5

OAuth 2.0 scopes are a way to model (API) resources. This allows you to give logical “names” to APIs that clients can use to request tokens for. You might have very granular scopes like e.g. api1 & api2, or very coarse grained … Continue reading

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Reference Tokens and Introspection

Access tokens can come in two shapes: self-contained and reference. Self-contained tokens are using a protected, time-limited data structure that contains metadata and claims to communicate the identity of the user or client over the wire. A popular format would … Continue reading

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IdentityServer3 v2.2

Yesterday we published v2.2 to nuget and github. You can see the release notes here. Besides a couple of bug fixes and refinements – the big features are support for the introspection specification (rfc 7662) and the OpenID Connect HTTP-based … Continue reading

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Federated Logout with the Katana WS-Federation Middleware

For some reason the Katana WS-Fed middleware does not seem to implement signout cleanup. This means that your application will ignore federated signout callbacks from the STS which will result in resources like logon cookies not being cleaned up properly. … Continue reading

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Three days of Identity & Access Control Workshop at SDD Deep Dive – November 2015, London

As part of the SDD Deep Dive event in London – Brock and I will deliver an updated version of our “Identity & Access Control for modern Web Applications and APIs” workshop. For the first time, this will be a … Continue reading

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OpenID Connect Certification for IdentityServer3

I am extremely happy to announce that IdentityServer3 is now officially certified by the OpenID Foundation. Certification Version 1.6 and onwards is now fully compatible with the basic, implicit, hybrid and configuration profile of OpenID Connect.

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IdentityServer3 1.0.0

Today is a big day for us! Brock and I started working on the next generation of IdentityServer over 14 months ago. In fact – I remember exactly how I created the very first file (constants.cs) somewhere in the Swiss … Continue reading

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IdentityServer & IdentityManager, Updates and the .NET Foundation

It’s busy times right now but we are still on track with our release plans for IdentityServer (and IdentityManager, which will get more love once IdentityServer is done). In fact we just pushed beta 3-4 to github and nuget, which mostly … Continue reading

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MVP Summit Hackathon: IdentityServer v3 on ASP.NET vNext

Today we had a chance to sit together with the ASP.NET team and try moving IdentityServer to vNext. There are two fundamental approaches for doing that – migrate the code and middleware to the new APIs or host IdentityServer as-is as … Continue reading

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