Monthly Archives: June 2009
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Another identity development widget brought to you by Vittorio’s team. This time it’s a very tiny control called SecurityTokenVisualizer that helps debugging claims-aware web applications. But the thing I like of this control is that it can also be used as a teaching tool, very useful for demos by the way. Last week we “dogfooded”... read more
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Vittorio just announced it in his blog… we helped writing an experiment of raising the level of abstraction to work against claims. We created a server control that allows you to work with claims. There are three types of expression: Claim Value: set the value of a property with the value of a specified claim... read more
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In my last post I talked about an identity roadmap and how we are helping companies to achieve Level 1: Externalizing Authentication. In this first level, we only care about checking the credentials of a user in a Security Token Service and issue a token with a couple of claims. That token will be enough... read more
- The following table shows an analogy of identity concepts between a single application and a federated application. The single app has its own identity silo and the federated app relies on an STS (like Geneva Server). I find this analogy useful to explain how things differ from the non-federated non-claim-based world.
