Tag Archives: Authentication
Is scanning QR Codes for authentication safe?
This article explains why cross device authentication has security issues as it is subject to phishing attacks unless further authentication is used in the client. Scanning QR Codes for authentication does not protect against phishing and leaves the users open to having their session stolen. Phishing There a many forms of phishing and this is […]
The authentication pyramid
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 […]
Implement app roles authorization with Azure AD and ASP.NET Core
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 […]
Login and use an ASP.NET Core API with Azure AD Auth and user access tokens
In this blog post, Azure AD will be setup and used to authenticate and authorize an ASP.NET core Razor Page application which uses an API from a separate ASP.NET Core MVC project. User access tokens are used to access to API, so that an email can be used in the API. The API is not […]
Creating Certificates for X.509 security in Azure IoT Hub using .NET Core
This article shows how to create certificates in .NET Core which can be used for Azure IoT Hub. The chained certificates are created using the nuget package CertificateManager. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreCertificates To use X.509 security with Azure IoT Hub, we would like to create chained certificates. This would make it possible to separate devices or group […]
Requiring MFA for Admin Pages in an ASP.NET Core Identity application
This article shows how MFA could be forced on users to access sensitive pages within an ASP.NET Core Identity application. This could be useful for applications where different levels of access exist for the different identities. For example, users might be able to view the profile data using a password login, but an administrator would […]
Send MFA signin requirement to OpenID Connect server using ASP.NET Core Identity and IdentityServer4
This post adds the custom ASP.NET Core Identity, IdentityServer4 logic to check for the “acr_values” and react if a client application requests MFA for authentication. The “acr_values” parameter is used to pass the mfa value from the client to the server in the authentication request. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi Blogs in this series Force ASP.NET Core OpenID […]
User claims in ASP.NET Core using OpenID Connect Authentication
This article shows two possible ways of getting user claims in an ASP.NET Core application which uses an IdentityServer4 service. Both ways have advantages and require setting different code configurations in both applications. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi To use OpenID Connect in an ASP.NET Core application, the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.OpenIdConnect package can be used. This needs to be added […]
Securing an ASP.NET Core Razor Page App using OpenID Connect Code flow with PKCE
This article shows how to secure an ASP.NET Core Razor Page application using the Open ID Connect code flow with PKCE (Proof Key for Code Exchange). The secure token server is implemented using IdentityServer4 but any STS could be used which supports PKCE. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/AspNetCoreHybridFlowWithApi History 2020-12-11 Updated to .NET 5 An ASP.NET Core 5 […]
Building and securing an ASP.NET Core API with a hosted Vue.js UI
This article shows how Vue.js can be used together with ASP.NET Core 3 in a single project. The Vue.js application is built using the Vue.js CLI and built to the wwwroot of the ASP.NET Core application. The ASP.NET Core application is used to implement the APIs consumed by the Vue.js UI. The application is secured […]
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