Windows Identity Foundation
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Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is a Microsoft software framework for building identity-aware applications.[https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2011/04/01/pfint_wif.aspx Improve Authentication with Windows Identity Foundation -- Visual Studio Magazine] It provides APIs for building ASP.NET or WCF based security token services as well as tools for building claims-aware and federation capable applications.[https://www.infoq.com/news/2012/08/WIF/ Windows Identity Foundation Now Included in .NET 4.5][https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/claims-based-identity What is claims-based identity? - Definition from WhatIs.com]
Windows Identity Foundation is supported on IIS 6/Windows Server 2003, IIS 7/Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. Version 1.0 shipped as a standalone product, but the product is now included as a part of Microsoft .NET Framework v4.5.{{cite web|title=Windows Identity Foundation 4.5 Overview|url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh291066(v=vs.110).aspx|publisher=Microsoft Corporation|access-date=January 24, 2012}}
Major features
WIF has the following major features:{{cite web | title=What is Windows Identity Foundation? |url=http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748475.aspx |author=Microsoft Corporation |publisher=Microsoft Corporation |access-date=August 2, 2011}}
- It allows developers to build claims-aware applications by providing a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that help developers write code to make access decisions to applications based on claims.
- It provides templates to help developers get started building claims-aware applications.
- It provides utilities that facilitate creation of a trust relationship between a claims-aware application (sometimes referred to as a Relying on Party application, or RP), and a Security Token Service (STS).
- It provides a set of ASP.NET controls that help developers create web pages in claims-aware applications.
- It includes a utility that helps developers translate between claims and NT tokens, so that claims-aware applications can be used to access resources that require NT-Token based identity.
- It includes functionality that allows identities to be maintained across multiple service boundaries, and allows delegation of claims.
- It provides tools to help developers build custom security token services using ASP.NET or WCF.
See also
References
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External links
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- [http://blogs.msdn.com/card/archive/2009/07/22/official-name-for-geneva.aspx "Official Name for Geneva"]
- [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa570351.aspx "Windows Identity Foundation site"]
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