Helper library for identity & access control in .NET 4.5 and MVC4/Web API.

Important: This is really old and we don't maintain it anymore. If you are looking for versions that build against MVC5/Web API v2 - use (https://github.com/identitymodel/Thinktecture.IdentityModel)

Base

• Base64Url encoding
• Epoch Date Time conversion
• Random number generation
• Time-constant string comparison
• Certificate Store Access
• Useful constants when dealing with algorithms, date time formats, JWT, SWT, WS-Security & WS-Trust

Claims

• Anoynmous claims principal
• Authentication instant claim
• Claims-based authorization
• ClaimsPrincipal factory

Extension Methods

• XML (to and from XmlReader, XmlDocument, XDocument)
• WS-Trust RSTRs
• Security token conversion
• X.509 Certificates

Web API and HTTP Security

• Extensible authentication framework for Web API that supports SAML 1.1/2.0, JWT, Access Keys, Basic Authentication
• Embeddable token endpoint
• Claims transformation
• Implementation of the Hawk authentication scheme
• Scope-based authorization
• OAuth2 client library

Web

• Cookie protection
• CORS
• Anti-clickjacking

ASP.NET Passive Federation

• Configuring session token lifetime
• Sliding sessions
• Overriding WS-Federation token lifetime
• Configuring persistent session token cookies
• Configuring machine key protection of session tokens
• Suppress login redirects for API clients
• Suppressing session token validation exceptions
• Server-side session token caching
• Dynamic issuer name registry direct from STS federation metadata

WS-Trust

• Helper classes for WCF
• WS-Trust bindings

see the [wiki] (https://github.com/thinktecture/Thinktecture.IdentityModel.45/wiki) for more resources.