Category Archives: OpenID Connect

IdentityServer3 v2 Release and other Tidbits (aka what did I miss during Holidays)

I am back from my annual family/summer vacation. This time it was Norway, and it was excellent. Norway has stunning landscapes and excellent breweries – recommended! During that time Brock released v2 of IdentityServer. This was a big release and … Continue reading

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IdentityModel 1.0.0 released

Part of the ongoing effort to modernize our libraries, I released IdentityModel today. IdentityModel contains useful helpers, extension methods and constants when working with claims-based identity in general and OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect in particular. See the overview here … Continue reading

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The State of Security in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6: OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect and IdentityServer

ASP.NET 5 contains a middleware for consuming tokens – but not anymore for producing them. I personally have never been a big fan of the Katana authorization server middleware (see my thoughts here) – and according to this, it seems … Continue reading

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The State of Security in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6: Claims & Authentication

Disclaimer: Microsoft announced the roadmap for ASP.NET 5 yesterday – the current release date of the final version is Q1 2016. Some details of the features and APIs I mention will change between now and then. This post is about … Continue reading

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Security at NDC Oslo

For a developer conference, NDC Oslo had a really strong security track this year. Also the audience appreciated that – from the five highest ranked talks – three were about security. Troy has the proof. I even got to see Bruce … Continue reading

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Three days of Identity & Access Control Workshop at SDD Deep Dive – November 2015, London

As part of the SDD Deep Dive event in London – Brock and I will deliver an updated version of our “Identity & Access Control for modern Web Applications and APIs” workshop. For the first time, this will be a … Continue reading

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OpenID Connect Certification for IdentityServer3

I am extremely happy to announce that IdentityServer3 is now officially certified by the OpenID Foundation. Certification Version 1.6 and onwards is now fully compatible with the basic, implicit, hybrid and configuration profile of OpenID Connect.

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IdentityServer3 vNext

Just a quick update about some upcoming changes in IdentityServer3. The last weeks since the 1.0.0 release in January we did mostly bug fixing, fine tuning and listening to feedback. Inevitably we found things we want to change and improve … Continue reading

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IdentityServer3 1.0.0

Today is a big day for us! Brock and I started working on the next generation of IdentityServer over 14 months ago. In fact – I remember exactly how I created the very first file (constants.cs) somewhere in the Swiss … Continue reading

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IdentityServer & IdentityManager, Updates and the .NET Foundation

It’s busy times right now but we are still on track with our release plans for IdentityServer (and IdentityManager, which will get more love once IdentityServer is done). In fact we just pushed beta 3-4 to github and nuget, which mostly … Continue reading

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