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The Windows Identity Foundation is a free Microsoft library that enables claims based authentication and use federated identity/single sign-on in their applications.

URL redirection from ADFS server

I'm using ADFS for authentication in my ASP.net web app. The STS server redirects the browser to https://test.…

asp.net authentication redirect wif adfs
A potentially dangerous Request.Form value was detected from the client (wresult="<trust:RequestSecuri...")

I am also getting a request validation error when using WIF. I get correctly sent to the STS, but on …

asp.net-mvc-3 wif single-sign-on
ID4175: The issuer of the security token was not recognized by the IssuerNameRegistry

I am trying to implement a Simple STS web site alongside my MVC application in a development environment. I was …

asp.net-mvc web-config certificate wif
"Key not valid for use in specified state" Error for .Net 4.5 MVC 4 Application

To preface this question, please excuse me if I am getting any of my terminology wrong. The technology is very …

asp.net-mvc-4 iis-7 .net-4.5 wif web-farm
Federated Authentication on Azure

I'm using WIF (.net 4.5), and Azure Active directory for authentication. The website will sit on Azure. Everything works as expected …

asp.net azure wif
ClaimsPrincipal.Current vs. HttpContext.Current.User?

In MVC what's the difference between these 2? They look identical, and they even return the same Type/Class System.Web.…

asp.net-mvc model-view-controller wif claims-based-identity azure-acs
WIF STS ID3242: The security token could not be authenticated or authorized

I'm getting the following error in my client application when it tries to authenticate to my service: ID3242: The security …

wcf wif sts-securitytokenservice
Cannot find a unique certificate that matches the criteria

I am running into the following error when attempting to parse my token: Property name: 'certificateReference' Error: 'ID1025: Cannot find …

x509certificate wif
ADFS 2.0 Error ID4175: The issuer of the security token was not recognized by the IssuerNameRegistry

The error: ID4175: The issuer of the security token was not recognized by the IssuerNameRegistry. To accept security tokens from …

wif adfs2.0
Authentication when using Security Token Service

I have created a Security Token Service (STS), an service with a reference to the STS and an example desktop …

wcf wif sts-securitytokenservice