Category Archives: OpenID Connect

Identity Videos, Podcasts and Slides from Conference Season 2016/1

My plan was to cut down on conferences and travelling in general – this didn’t work out ;) I did more conferences in the first 6 months of 2016 than I did in total last year. weird. Here are some … Continue reading

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IdentityModel: OpenID Connect & OAuth 2.0 Client Library for Mobile/Native Applications

Recently we had a couple of customers that needed to connect their native desktop and mobile applications to an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 back-end. We always had samples that showed how to do this, but making them re-usable and cross-platform … Continue reading

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IdentityServer4 on ASP.NET Core RC2

This week was quite busy ;) Besides doing a couple of talks and workshops at SDD in London – we also updated all the IdentityServer4 bits to RC2. Many thanks to all the people in the community that were part … Continue reading

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NDC London 2016 Wrap-up

NDC has been fantastic again! Good fun, good talks and good company! Brock and I did the usual 2-day version of our Identity & Access Control workshop at the pre-con. This was (probably) the last time we ran the 2-day … Continue reading

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PKCE Support in IdentityServer and IdentityModel

PKCE stands for “Proof Key for Code Exchange” and is a way to make OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect operations using an authorization code more secure. It is specified in RFC 7636. PKCE applies to authorization/token requests whenever the code … Continue reading

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Which OpenID Connect/OAuth 2.0 Flow is the right One?

That is probably the most common question we get – and the answer is of course: it depends! Machine to Machine Communication This one is easy – since there is no human directly involved, client credentials are used to request … Continue reading

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Announcing IdentityServer for ASP.NET 5 and .NET Core

Over the last couple of years, we’ve been working with the ASP.NET team on the authentication and authorization story for Web API, Katana and ASP.NET 5. This included the design around claims-based identity, authorization and token-based authentication. In the Katana … Continue reading

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IdentityServer3 v2.2

Yesterday we published v2.2 to nuget and github. You can see the release notes here. Besides a couple of bug fixes and refinements – the big features are support for the introspection specification (rfc 7662) and the OpenID Connect HTTP-based … Continue reading

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IdentityServer3 Logging & Monitoring using Serilog and Seq

IdentityServer has two fundamental “monitoring” facilities : development-time logging and production-time eventing. The original docs are here. Logging is for developers – in fact – when I start a new IdentityServer3 project, that’s the first thing I configure. For security reasons (and … Continue reading

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Upcoming Identity & Access Control Workshops in Europe

Brock and I will be in London in November and January to hold our identity & access control workshop. In November we are at the SDD Deep Dive event and do a very special three day version which includes extra … Continue reading

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