Category Archives: WebAPI

OAuth 2.0 Token Introspection Middleware for ASP.NET 5

In my last post I described the value of reference tokens and how the OAuth 2.0 token introspection spec (aka rfc7662) gives us a standard way of using them. Over the christmas break I worked on an ASP.NET 5-based middleware … Continue reading

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Reference Tokens and Introspection

Access tokens can come in two shapes: self-contained and reference. Self-contained tokens are using a protected, time-limited data structure that contains metadata and claims to communicate the identity of the user or client over the wire. A popular format would … 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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The State of Security in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6: Authorization

The hardest part in designing an application is authorization. The requirements are always so app-specific that for 10 applications you often see 12 different implementations. To make things worse, ASP.NET and MVC traditionally had not much more built-in to offer than … 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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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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The State of Security in ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6

We’ve been closely following ASP.NET 5 and MVC 6 since the days it was presented behind closed doors, through the “vNext” and “Project K” phase up to recent beta builds. I personally monitored all developments in the security space in … Continue reading

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