Category Archives: ASP.NET

Advanced OAuth2: Assertion Flow (why)

The core OAuth2 spec defines so called flows, which are basically descriptions of the interactions between a client, a user and an authorization server to request access tokens. Another implied fact is, that the resource server and the authorization server … Continue reading

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My Web API Security Talk from Software Architect 2013

https://vimeo.com/user22258446/review/79095048/9a4d62f61c

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Dissecting the Web API Individual Accounts Template–Part 3: External Accounts

Part 1 covered the basic template security setup. Part 2 focused on the features around local accounts and username/password authentication. This part will deal with third party authentication using Google and friends as well as associating a third party account … Continue reading

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Dissecting the Web API Individual Accounts Template–Part 2: Local Accounts

In the last post I gave an overview of the security setup of the Individual Accounts template. I recommend reading that first. Also Brock has some great background content – here and here. Disclaimer: I would have designed the API … Continue reading

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Dissecting the Web API Individual Accounts Template–Part 1: Overview

The Web API v2 Individual Accounts template shows off some quite popular application scenarios, e.g. username/password authentication with local accounts (including create account, change/set password) as well as third party authentication using Facebook, Google etc – including linking those external … Continue reading

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Thinktecture.IdentityModel v.Next

Thinktecture.IdentityModel (github, nuget) is a popular library in the security community. But we have reached a point now where we realized that we have too many dependencies and too many legacy stuff in it. With the release of Web API … Continue reading

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Using IdentityServer with VS2013/MVC5/One ASP.NET

This of course works just as you expected…

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Using AuthorizationServer with Web API v2/Katana–first look

Traditionally we have used Thinktecture.IdentityModel to parse and validate incoming JWT tokens in Web API. The good news is, there is nothing you have to change when moving to Web API v2 – the delegating handler approach, and thus IdentityModel … Continue reading

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Two days of Claims-based Identity & Access Control Workshop in London

Great news! The London edition of the NDC conference has pre-con workshops and Jakob invited us to hold our claims-based identity & access control workshop there. This is the first time Brock and I are teaching the workshop together, and … Continue reading

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IdentityServer: Preview of the OpenID Connect Basic Client Profile

The mid term plan is that OpenID Connect will replace the plain OAuth2 endpoints in IdentityServer. As a first step, I just checked in a preview of the OIDC basic client profile support (see this doc). The preview consists of … Continue reading

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