A year ago I wrote a blog post about how to use the Windows Identity Foundation with OpenID. Essentially the idea was writing an STS that can speak both protocol WS-Federation and OpenID, so your apps can keep using WIF as the claims framework, no matter what your Identity Provider is. WS-Fed == enterprise, OpenID... read more
I will go straight to the point in this post. This is a possible architecture if you want to allow OpenID authentication in a claims-aware WS-Federation-compatible web application. In this architecture there are three actors: the web application (aka the relying party) the OpenID provider (myopenid, Google, Yahoo, etc.) the “protocol broker” STS that “translates”... read more
