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Financial APIs and IdentityServer

Right now there is quite some movement in the financial sector towards APIs and “collaboration” scenarios. The OpenID Foundation started a dedicated working group on securing Financial APIs (FAPIs) and the upcoming Revised Payment Service EU Directive (PSD2 – official … Continue reading

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IdentityServer & Heidelberg on Channel9

Seth and the Channel9 crew visited me in my office in Heidelberg to learn about IdentityServer and German culture. We had a nice day in Heidelberg involving identity, a whiteboard, code, beers & bratwurst ;) enjoy. Part 1 (interview and … Continue reading

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New in IdentityServer4: Events

Well – not really new – but redesigned. IdentityServer4 has two diagnostics facilities – logging and events. While logging is more like low level “printf” style – events represent higher level information about certain logical operations in IdentityServer (think Windows security … Continue reading

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OpenID Connect Client Library for JavaScript/SPA-style Applications

In addition to our native library – Brock successfully certified his JavaScript library with the OpenID Foundation. oidc-client-js is by far the most easy and elegant way I have seen so far for integrating OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 client … Continue reading

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New in IdentityServer4: Resource-based Configuration

For RC4 we decided to re-design our configuration object model for resources (formerly known as scopes). I know, I know – we are not supposed to make fundamental breaking changes once reaching the RC status – but hey – we … Continue reading

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Trying IdentityServer

We have a demo instance of IdentityServer3 on https://demo.identityserver.io. I already used this for various samples (e.g. the OpenID Connect native clients) – and it makes it easy to try IdentityServer with your clients without having to deploy and configure … Continue reading

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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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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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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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