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One Identity - Many Faces :IIdentity

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User security context in .Net is abstracted by implementation of IPrincipl and IIdentity interfaces.

Sometimes, it represents windows account by WindowsIdentity implementation, sometimes not, like with ADFS' SingleSignOnIdentity or forms based authentication FormsIdentity. One can even implement her own HerOwnIdentity - the important part it must implement simple interface - IIdentity

 

I am playing with WindowsIdentity now in different scenarios including impersonation, delegation, and protocol transition.

I am going to post my experiments around it.

 

Most of it is already summarized here - ASP.NET Identity Matrix 

 

I like practicing,

I like my own mistakes :)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    April 05, 2007
    Identity story with .Net really rocks, but along with great extensibility it also brings a lots of confusion
  • Anonymous
    June 22, 2007
    החודש פגשתי את אליק לוין ממיקרוסופט ישראל לשיחה קצרה. עם המון התלהבות ממה שהוא עושה ועם חיוך תמידי על