Monthly Archives: December 2012

ASP.NET (Web API) Security: Prologue

Many people asked me how all the moving parts of Thinktecture.IdentityModel, IdentityServer and ASP.NET and Web API relate to each other. And quite frankly, reading my old blog posts does not always help – a lot of things have changed, … Continue reading

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Photography: F208, Iceland

F208 to Landmannalaugar (64°6’41” N 19°6’42” W) Taken from “Iceland in Black and White” (blurb)

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Embedding Thinktecture IdentityServer in your own Applications

Starting with v2 of identity server, the core engine and protocol implementations are separately available as a Nuget package. This allows re-hosting the core STS logic or the protocol endpoints inside your own applications. As a proof of concept, the … Continue reading

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Thinktecture IdentityServer v2 RTM

Title says it all – I am glad we could get this done before the end of the year!! Besides bug fixes since the last beta version, we added two features: identity server core nuget package and profile editor. I … Continue reading

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Enabling Tracing in Thinktecture.IdentityServer

Most problems in IdentityServer can be determined by looking at the trace files. Here’s a quick how-to: 1. Make sure tracing configuration is included-  your web.config should contain this: <system.diagnostics configSource=“configuration\tracing.config“ />   2. Inspect the tracing configuration file. The following … Continue reading

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Thinktecture.IdentityModel Nuget Package hits 10K downloads

Thanks!

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Photography: Frostastaðavatn, Iceland

Frostastaðavatn / Landmannalaugar (64°0’50” N 19°2’45” W)   Taken from “Iceland in Black and White” (blurb)

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Claims-based Identity & Access Control Training in 2013

Brock and I are working on the next version of the “identity course”. Updated to .NET 4.5 and all the latest tech! Will be big fun! Claims-based Identity & Access Control for .NET 4.5 Applications Day 1 Introduction to Claims-based … Continue reading

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More Compatibility between Thinktecture.IdentityModel JWT and Microsoft JWT

Reader centralbin comments: “In fact the reverse is also true : You can configure TT-STS as an IP-STS in ACS. The JWT tokens issued by TT-STS can also be consumed in ACS. The only “gotcha” is that you manually need … Continue reading

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Compatibility between Thinktecture.IdentityModel JWT and Microsoft JWT

I just did a quick test – the JWT token handler in Thinktecture.IdentityModel can consume and validate JWTs coming from Access Control Service. Thought I let you know ;) Nice.

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