Category Archives: AuthorizationServer

Combining Thinktecture AuthorizationServer with Windows Integrated Authentication

Posted on January 11, 2014 by

One of the key features of AS is that you can combine it with arbitrary authentication methods. This basically allows to layer OAuth2 and our application and authorization model over any identity management system. Recently the question came up which … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET, AuthorizationServer, OAuth, WebAPI | 26 Comments

Advanced OAuth2: Assertion Flow (how)

Posted on December 23, 2013 by

My last post described the mechanics and motivation for the OAuth2 assertion flow. In this post I want to show you how you can use Thinktecture AuthorizationServer to implement an assertion flow scenario. For this specific example I will use … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET, AuthorizationServer, IdentityModel, OAuth, WebAPI | 5 Comments

Advanced OAuth2: Assertion Flow (why)

Posted on December 23, 2013 by

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 →

Posted in ASP.NET, AuthorizationServer, OAuth, WebAPI | 1 Comment

My Web API Security Talk from Software Architect 2013

Posted on November 28, 2013 by

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

Posted in ASP.NET, AuthorizationServer, Conferences & Training, IdentityModel, IdentityServer, Katana, OAuth, OWIN | 5 Comments

Adding Refresh Tokens to a Web API v2 Authorization Server

Posted on November 15, 2013 by

In the last post I showed how to add a simple username/password (aka resource owner password credentials flow) authorization server to Web API v2. This has several advantages: The client does not need to hold on to the user credentials … Continue reading →

Posted in AuthorizationServer, IdentityModel, Katana, OAuth, OWIN, WebAPI | 38 Comments

Authorization Servers are good for you (and your Web APIs)

Posted on November 13, 2013 by

An authorization server is a very important architectural component when it comes to Web API security – think of it as a traffic cop between clients, users and resources. The OAuth2 spec defines it as follows: “The server issuing access … Continue reading →

Posted in AuthorizationServer, Katana, OAuth, OWIN, WebAPI | 10 Comments

Thinktecture AuthorizationServer v1.0

Posted on November 4, 2013 by

Six months ago we released the first preview version of AS to the public. Since then happened quite a bit. We went feature complete for v1, did some bug fixing and used AS in a number of customer projects. We … Continue reading →

Posted in AuthorizationServer, OAuth, WebAPI | 2 Comments

Using AuthorizationServer with Nancy

Posted on October 25, 2013 by

Yesterday I tried to find out what it takes to connect a Nancy application to AuthorizationServer. Given the OWIN promise, the “hard parts” like JWT validation should come for free now: public class Startup {     public void Configuration(IAppBuilder app) … Continue reading →

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Adding OAuth2 to ADFS (and thus bridging the gap between modern Applications and Enterprise Back ends)

Posted on September 19, 2013 by

AuthorizationServer can be combined with arbitrary authentication methods, but the fact that it comes pre-configured as a WS-Federation relying party, makes it particularly easy to combine it with e.g. ADFS. This is a really interesting scenario, because it essentially allows … Continue reading →

Posted in AuthorizationServer, IdentityModel, IdentityServer, OAuth, WebAPI | 20 Comments

Claims Transformation Middleware for Katana

Posted on September 18, 2013 by

One missing piece in Katana security/authentication is claims transformation. Fortunately, this is easy to add: public class ClaimsTransformationMiddleware : OwinMiddleware {     ClaimsAuthenticationManager _claimsAuthenticationManager;       public ClaimsTransformationMiddleware(            OwinMiddleware next,             ClaimsAuthenticationManager claimsAuthenticationManager)        : base(next)     {         if (claimsAuthenticationManager == … Continue reading →

Posted in AuthorizationServer, IdentityModel, Katana, WebAPI | 10 Comments