The blog is my getting started with Self Sovereign identity. I plan to explore developing solutions using Self Sovereign Identities, the different services and evaluate some of the user cases in the next couple of blogs. Some of the definitions are explained, but mainly it is a list of resources, links for getting started. I’m […]
This article looks at the authentication pyramid for signing into different applications. I only compare flows which have user interaction and only compare the 2FA, MFA differences. A lot of incorrect and aggressive marketing from large companies are blurring out the differences so that they can sell their products and so on. When you as […]
The article shows how a Blazor web assembly UI hosted in an ASP.NET Core application can be secured using cookies. Azure AD is used as the identity provider and the Microsoft.Identity.Web Nuget package is used to secure the trusted server rendered application. The API calls are protected using the secure cookie and anti-forgery tokens to […]
This post show how Azure AD groups could be used to implement authorization for an Azure Blob storage and used in an ASP.NET Core Razor page application to authorize the identities. The groups are assigned the roles in the Azure Storage. Azure AD users are added to the Azure AD groups and inherit the group […]
This posts shows how an Angular application can be secured using Open ID Connect code flow with PKCE and OAuth Pushed Authorisation Requests using node-oidc-provider as the identity provider. This requires configuration on both the client and the identity provider. Code: par-angular Getting started using Schematics and angular-auth-oidc-client The Angular client is implemented using angular-auth-oidc-client. […]
This post shows how an ASP.NET Core application which uses ASP.NET Core Identity to authenticate and authorize users of the application can be used to require user password verification to view specific Razor pages in the application. If the user opens one of the Razor pages which require a password verification to open the page, […]
This post shows how authorization can be implemented for Azure Storage Blob containers in an ASP.NET Core web application. The two roles Storage Blob Data Contributor and Storage Blob Data Reader are used to authorize the Azure AD users which use the Blob storage container. Users are assigned the roles using role assignment. This authorization […]
This post shows how files can be uploaded to Azure blob storage using ASP.NET Core in a secure way using OAuth and Open ID Connect. Azure AD is used to authenticate the users. The uploaded file descriptions are saved to an SQL database using EF Core so that listing or searching files can be implemented […]
This post shows how to implement Azure AD App roles and applied to users or groups in Azure AD. The roles are used in an ASP.NET Core Razor page application as well as a ASP.NET Core API. The roles from the access token and the id token are used to authorize the identity which is […]
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