Category Archives: WIF

Policy Based Authorization in Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) – Part II

Posted on June 24, 2013 by cprakash

Policy based authorization has been gaining ground lately though it is not fully adopted, XACML – 4 main components PAP is the Policy Administration Point This is where you administer the policies changing the security rules, and policies. This is … Continue reading →

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Policy Based Authorization in Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) – Part I

Posted on April 28, 2013 by cprakash

I wrote before about Claims based authentication here and a sample IP-STS to perform Authentication, but Authentication is not just enough for any application, it also requires Authorization, this is required to protect your resources and actions. Traditionally, its been … Continue reading →

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Developing an Active STS – A Fun Project

Posted on February 11, 2013 by cprakash

Lately, I have been playing around with WIF to build an Active STS. I didn’t have access to necessary tools to build this on .NET 4.5 and I used .NET 4.0 to start with, this difference is significant because WIF … Continue reading →

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Identity in .NET 4.5 (aka WIF)

Posted on January 3, 2013 by cprakash

This article is based on the presentation given by Brock Allen and I would like to thanks him that he allowed me to use his presentation and code. Pleae refer his presentation here. http://brockallen.com/2012/10/16/demos-microsoft-devboston-windows-identity-foundation-in-net-4-5/ Traditional Approach to Authentication – Authentication … Continue reading →

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