The last week I have been working on a claim-based identity scenario that involves two separate instances of a Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) 2.0 as Security Token Service (STS). The first STS is an identity provider STS (IP-STS) and the second a resource STS (R-STS) . The R-STS and IP-STS...
A couple of days ago I got mail from a reader of an old .NET remoting article of mine, where I built a sample chat application using the precursor technology of WCF. The article was pretty old, and the sample code written in .NET 1.0 and Visual Studio .NET 2002 . The code would not work under .NET Framework...
The January 2007 CTP version of Visual Studio "Orcas" has .NET FX 3.5 version 3.5.11209. One of the assemblies is System.Web.Extensions and hosts some great new additions to the ASP.NET stack. It has new classes in the namespace System.Web.Security, two of which are LoginService and RolesService. In...
A web server will send the public key of its server certificate to set up a SSL connection with the client. The client checks whether the certificate is still a valid in this point in time the name of the server matches the one in the certificate the certificate has been issued by an authority it trusts...
Browsers will need to have client certificates installed before any web server can receive them for authentication and authorization. Certificate Services can issue these certificates manually by a user, administrator or even programmatically. Let's assume that your users need to acquire a certificate...