Category Archives: AuthorizationServer

The Future of AuthorizationServer

Now that IdentityServer v3 is almost done, it makes sense to “deprecate” some of the older projects. Especially all of the functionality of AuthorizationServer is completely replaced by the IdSrv3 feature set. AuthorizationServer is actually a pretty small and compact … Continue reading

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Covert Redirect – really?

In the era where security vulnerabilities have logos, stickers and mainstream media coverage – it seems to be really easy to attract attention with simple input validation flaws. Quoting: “Covert Redirect is an application that takes a parameter and redirects a … Continue reading

Posted in .NET Security, AuthorizationServer, IdentityServer, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Uncategorized, WebAPI | 4 Comments

New Pluralsight Course: “Web API v2 Security”

It is finally online! Hope you like it. http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/webapi-v2-security

Posted in ASP.NET, AuthorizationServer, Katana, OAuth, OWIN, WebAPI | 22 Comments

Announcing Thinktecture IdentityServer v3 – Preview 1

The last months we’ve been heads down re-writing IdentityServer from scratch (see here for background) – and we are now at a point where we think we have enough up and running to show it to you! What we’ve done … Continue reading

Posted in ASP.NET, AuthorizationServer, IdentityModel, IdentityServer, Katana, OAuth, OpenID Connect, OWIN, WebAPI | 35 Comments

Integrating AuthorizationServer with Auth0

AuthorizationServer is a lightweight OAuth2 implementation that is designed to integrate with arbitrary identity management systems. I wrote about integration with Thinktecture IdentityServer, ADFS and even plain Windows integrated authentication before. Another really compelling and feature rich identity management is … Continue reading

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The Web API v2 OAuth2 Authorization Server Middleware–Is it worth it?

Adding the concept of an authorization server to your web APIs is the recommended architecture for managing authentication and authorization. But writing such a service from scratch is not an easy task. To simplify that, Microsoft included an OAuth2 based … Continue reading

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OpenID Connect and the IdentityServer Roadmap

Since OpenID Connect has been officially released now, I thought I’ll tell you a little bit more about our plans around our identity open source projects. IdentityServerIdSrv is a very popular identity provider with excellent support for WS-Federation and WS-Trust. … Continue reading

Posted in AuthorizationServer, IdentityModel, IdentityServer, Katana, OAuth, OpenID Connect, OWIN, WebAPI | 24 Comments

Workshop: Identity & Access Control for modern Web Applications and APIs

Brock and I are currently working on a brand new two day workshop about all things security when building modern web applications and APIs. You can either attend the full two day version at NDC Oslo (June) – or a … Continue reading

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Using AuthorizationServer with Nancy (updated)

Since I am currently in the process of updating AuthorizationServer and its samples – I thought it would be the right time to throw away my custom Nancy extensions and use Damian Hickey’s nice Nancy.MSOwinSecurity package instead. The outcome is … Continue reading

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AuthorizationServer v1.2

I just uploaded version 1.2 of AuthorizationServer. The big change is that AS is now using MVC and Web API v5.1.1 – additionally there are some bug fixes and a new configuration switch – set the following appSetting to false … Continue reading

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