Monthly Archives: January 2020

Hardening Refresh Tokens

Refresh tokens provide a UX friendly way to give a client long-lived access to resources without having to involve the user after the initial authentication & token request. This makes them also a high-value target for attackers, because they typically … Continue reading

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2020: IdentityServer4 Roadmap

It’s the time of the year – we are working on IdentityServer and lock down the features we want to implement for the next version(s). Initially we planned to make our 3.0 release the big one – but then .NET … Continue reading

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New in IdentityServer4 v4: Multiple signing Keys

So far IdentityServer4 only supported a single signing key at a time. There are historic reasons for that. When we started with .NET Core, the only x-plat algorithm that really worked (without #ifdef hell) was RSA with SHA-256 (RS256) so … Continue reading

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OAuth 2.0: The long Road to Proof-of-Possession Access Tokens

I did a lot of WS-Security in my (distant) past – and whenever we started looking into migrating to OAuth 2.0, there was this one thing on the security check-list that was missing in the OAuth world: proof of possession … Continue reading

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IdentityServer3 and upcoming SameSite Cookie changes in Browsers

You have probably heard that starting with Chrome 80 in February, the behavior of cookies will change. This is a breaking change and effects every single web application on the internet. Microsoft has patched their supported platforms (ASP.NET, Katana 4 … Continue reading

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