Category Archives: IdentityServer

Walkthrough for setting up IdentityServer v1.0

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Dominick Baier

Claudio Sanchez did it again! thanks! http://claudioasanchez.blogspot.com/2011/12/walk-though-of-provisioning-identity.html

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Claims Guide–2nd Edition PDF

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Dominick Baier

http://tinyurl.com/claimsguide2

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Small (and fixed) Bug in IdentityServer v1.0

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dominick Baier

It was brought to my attention that fedutil does not work anymore with IdSrv v1 metadata. And I can confirm that. The reason for this bug is my recent change to the XmlWriter factory methods which have a different default … Continue reading →

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Thinktecture IdentityServer v1.0

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dominick Baier

Yeah – it is finally done. I just uploaded the v1 bits to Codeplex and the documentation to our server. Here’s the official blurb… Thinktecture IdentityServer is an open source security token service based on Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF … Continue reading →

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StarterSTS on IIS 6

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dominick Baier

Sam Huggill wrote a great post on how to get StarterSTS working on IIS 6. Thanks Sam!

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Token based Authentication for WCF HTTP/REST Services: Authorization

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Dominick Baier

In the previous post I showed how token based authentication can be implemented for WCF HTTP based services. Authentication is the process of finding out who the user is – this includes anonymous users. Then it is up to the … Continue reading →

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Token based Authentication for WCF HTTP/REST Services: The Client

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dominick Baier

If you wondered how a client would have to look like to work with the authentication framework, it is pretty straightfoward: Request a token Put that token on the authorization header (along with a registered scheme) and make the service … Continue reading →

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Token based Authentication for WCF HTTP/REST Services: Authentication

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dominick Baier

This post shows some of the implementation techniques for adding token and claims based security to HTTP/REST services written with WCF. For the theoretical background, see my previous post. Disclaimer The framework I am using/building here is not the only … Continue reading →

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Token based Authentication and Claims for Restful Services

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dominick Baier

WIF as it exists today is optimized for web applications (passive/WS-Federation) and SOAP based services (active/WS-Trust). While there is limited support for WCF WebServiceHost based services (for standard credential types like Windows and Basic), there is no ready to use … Continue reading →

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Need WIF Training?

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Dominick Baier

I spend numerous hours every month answering questions about WIF and identity in general. This made me realize that this is still quite a complicated topic once you go beyond the standard fedutil stuff. My good friend Brock and I … Continue reading →

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