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Use multiple identity providers from a Blazor WASM ASP.NET Core App secured using BFF
This post shows how to implement a Blazor WASM UI hosted in an ASP.NET Core application using multiple identity providers to authenticate. Two confidential OpenID Connect code flow clients with PKCE are used to implement the Blazor authentication. The Blazor WASM and the ASP.NET Core application are a single security context. This is implemented using […]
Switch tenants in an ASP.NET Core app using Azure AD with multi tenants
This article shows how to switch between tenants in an ASP.NET Core multi-tenant application using a multi-tenant Azure App registration to implement the identity provider. Azure roles are added to the Azure App registration and this can be used in the separate enterprise applications created from the multi-tenant Azure App registration to assign users and […]
Implement an OpenIddict identity provider using ASP.NET Core Identity with Keycloak federation
This post shows how to setup a Keycloak external authentication in an OpenIddict identity provider using ASP.NET Core identity. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreOpeniddict Setup The solution context implements OpenID Connect clients which use an OpenIddict identity provider and ASP.NET Core Identity to manage the accounts. All clients authenticate using the OpenIddict server. Keycloak is used as an […]
Transforming identity claims in ASP.NET Core and Cache
The article shows how to add extra identity claims to an ASP.NET Core application which authenticates using the Microsoft.Identity.Web client library and Azure AD B2C or Azure AD as the identity provider (IDP). This could easily be switched to OpenID Connect and use any IDP which supports OpenID Connect. The extra claims are added after […]
Blazor WASM hosted in ASP.NET Core templates with Azure B2C and Azure AD authentication using Backend for Frontend (BFF)
I have implemented many Blazor WASM ASP.NET Core hosted applications now for both Azure AD and Azure B2C authentication. I always implement security for this type of application now using the Backend for Frontend (BFF) security architecture and can remove the tokens from the client. This is also what I recommend. At present, no Microsoft […]
Implement certificate authentication in ASP.NET Core for an Azure B2C API connector
This article shows how an ASP.NET Core API can be setup to require certificates for authentication. The API is used to implement an Azure B2C API connector service. The API connector client uses a certificate to request profile data from the Azure App Service API implementation, which is validated using the certificate thumbprint. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreB2cExtraClaims […]
Securing multiple Auth0 APIs in ASP.NET Core using OAuth Bearer tokens
This article shows a strategy for security multiple APIs which have different authorization requirements but the tokens are issued by the same authority. Auth0 is used as the identity provider. A user API and a service API are implemented in the ASP.NET Core API project. The access token for the user API data is created […]
Encrypting texts for an Identity in ASP.NET Core Razor Pages using AES and RSA
The article shows how encrypted texts can be created for specific users in an ASP.NET Core Razor page application. Symmetric encryption is used to encrypt the text or the payload. Asymmetric encryption is used to encrypt the AES key and the IV of the symmetric encryptions. Each ASP.NET Core Identity has an associated X509Certificate2 with […]
Provisioning X.509 Devices for Azure IoT Hub using .NET Core
This article shows how Azure device provisioning service can be used to setup an Azure IoT Hub and provision devices using X.509 certificates in an enrollment group. The certificates are created using the nuget package CertificateManager. By using this package, the X.509 certificates can be created in .NET Core and created on the fly as […]
Create Certificates for IdentityServer4 signing using .NET Core
This article shows how to create certificates for an IdentityServer4 application to use for signing and token validation. The certificates are created using the CertificateManager nuget package. Both RSA and ECDsa certificates can be used for signing in IdentityServer4. Code: Certificates for IdentityServer4 signing using .NET Core Creating the Certificates in .NET Core A simple […]
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