Monthly Archives: December 2008

Federating with Live ID (using the Access Control Service)

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Dominick Baier

There are already a number of ways today how you can federate with the Live ID service (e.g. using the Live ID SDK, OpenID or WS-Federation). Another option would be to use the Access Control Service. I can see a … Continue reading →

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Display Tokens & Geneva

Posted on December 26, 2008 by Dominick Baier

What are display tokens? In short: They allow an STS to pass some or all claims back to the client in a way that the client can read them. This differs from the “real” claims which are part of the … Continue reading →

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LeastPrivilege.IdentityModel2 Preview

Posted on December 25, 2008 by Dominick Baier

I thought as a little X-Mas present – I just zip up the current version of my IdentityModel2 solution and make it available for download here. It is barely tested (besides my own use cases which were the reason why … Continue reading →

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Final Release of InfoCardSelector on Codeplex

Posted on December 16, 2008 by Dominick Baier

For a while I had some updates to the InfoCardSelector ASP.NET control sitting here – thanks to altair we made some minor modifications, nothing critical. I finally uploaded them to Codeplex. However – this will be the last release of … Continue reading →

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ASP.NET Security Goodness

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Dominick Baier

A bunch of (ASP.NET) security tools got released over the weekend – highly recommended! Get more info from Mark and Barry. CAT.NET V1 CTP “CAT.NET is a snap-in to the Visual Studio IDE that helps you identify security flaws within … Continue reading →

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Federating with the .NET Access Control Service

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Dominick Baier

In my previous post I showed how to migrate the .NET Access Control Service SDK “CardSpaceCalculator” sample to Geneva Framework. The way this sample is structured, it allows to authenticate with the InfoCard that is associated with your solution account … Continue reading →

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Downloading the Certificate from an SSL Site

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Dominick Baier

Sometimes this is very useful– you point the below code to a server and get the configured SSL certificate in return. After that you could import the cert into the local store or save it as a file (via the … Continue reading →

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Using the .NET Access Control Service with Geneva

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Dominick Baier

If you haven’t checked out the .NET Access Control Service yet – I can highly recommend it! Justin did two talks about it at PDC: Access Control Service in .NET Services  Access Control Service Drilldown In the 2nd talk Justin … Continue reading →

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LeastPrivilege.IdentityModel v2

Posted on December 7, 2008 by Dominick Baier

Looking at the download numbers, my add-on library for System.IdentityModel was quite popular. Some days ago I started looking the code to see what could be still useful in the face of Geneva. The good news is, that a lot … Continue reading →

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T-Mobile Web’n’Walk & Vista 64

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Dominick Baier

I just spent two very unpleasant days trying to get the T-Mobile ExpressCard IV to work with Vista 64. But for some reasons the T-Mobile drivers for the Huawei E870 are screwed under 64 bit. Today I got a tip … Continue reading →

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