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Claims negotiation between a consumer, STS and Relying Party in WCF

According to the WS-Trust specification, a service consumer has a way to negotiate or ask for specific claims to the STS. Those claims (or some of them) will be generally used by the service implementation running on the relying party. They are negotiated through an "claims" element in the RST message...

Posted to Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) (Weblog) by cibrax on 01-28-2009, 12:00 AM
Filed under: Geneva, Federation, WCF
Some thoughts on Portable STS (P-STS) and Geneva Cardspace

The other day and friend of mine asked me about portable STS implementations, if I knew about any available solution that he could use on his company. That reminded me of a conversation I had like two years ago with another developer working on custom .NET CLR framework version for portable devices ...

Posted to Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) (Weblog) by cibrax on 02-02-2009, 12:00 AM
Filed under: WCF, Federation, Geneva, Infocard
Security Token Handlers in Geneva Framework

According to the Geneva documentation, "SecurityTokenHandler defines an interface for plugging custom token handling functionality. Using the SecurityTokenHandler you can add functionality to serialize, de-serialize, authenticate and create and specific kind of token" I can see dead people ..... :) Haven...

Posted to Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) (Weblog) by cibrax on 02-04-2009, 12:00 AM
Filed under: WCF, Geneva
WS-TRUST profiles and Cardspace

Geneva framework supports today the two WS-Trust profiles, Active and Passive. The active profile deals specially with applications that are able to make soap request to any WS-Trust endpoint. On other hand, the passive profile is for clients that are unable to emit proper SOAP (a web browser for instance...

Posted to Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) (Weblog) by cibrax on 02-05-2009, 12:00 AM
Filed under: WCF, Federation, Geneva, Cardspace
Brokered authentication for REST active clients with SAML

I have been thinking for a while about what could be a good way to support brokered authentication for active REST clients. Something I did not want to do was to force the use of WS-Trust Active profile, which is in essence SOAP based. Some of the qualities attributes that are easy to reach with REST...

Posted to Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) (Weblog) by cibrax on 03-06-2009, 12:00 AM
Filed under: WCF, Federation, REST, Geneva
Negotiating SAML tokens for REST clients with the HttpClient class

Continuing my post “Brokered authentication for REST active clients” , I will show today how the client code can be simplified using the new HttpClient (WCF REST Starter kit 2) and some custom http processing stages attached to its pipeline. The first thing we have to do is to implement a custom processing...

Posted to Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) (Weblog) by cibrax on 03-18-2009, 12:00 AM
Filed under: WCF, REST, Geneva, REST Starter Kit
IDFX -> Zermatt -> Geneva -> WIF RTM

At the PDC 09 Microsoft announced the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) of the Windows Identity Foundation, previously known as "Geneva", "Zermatt" before that, and "IDFX" before that. Grab the latest bytes from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd440951.aspx Best regards, Andres G Vettori, VMBC...

Posted to Andru's WebLog (Weblog) by andresv on 12-01-2009, 12:00 AM
Filed under: SOA, Tech Edge, .NET, WCF, WIF, Geneva