// </Snippet11>

        // <Snippet12>
        /// <summary>
        /// Validates the signature on the incoming token.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="simpleWebToken">The incoming <see cref="SimpleWebToken"/>.</param>
        protected virtual void ValidateSignature(SimpleWebToken simpleWebToken)
        {
            if (simpleWebToken == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("simpleWebToken");
            }

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(simpleWebToken.SerializedToken) || String.IsNullOrEmpty(simpleWebToken.Signature))
            {
                throw new SecurityTokenValidationException("The token does not have a signature to verify");
            }

            string serializedToken = simpleWebToken.SerializedToken;
            string unsignedToken   = null;

            // Find the last parameter. The signature must be last per SWT specification.
            int lastSeparator = serializedToken.LastIndexOf(ParameterSeparator);

            // Check whether the last parameter is an hmac.
            if (lastSeparator > 0)
            {
                string lastParamStart = ParameterSeparator + SimpleWebTokenConstants.Signature + "=";
                string lastParam      = serializedToken.Substring(lastSeparator);

                // Strip the trailing hmac to obtain the original unsigned string for later hmac verification.
                if (lastParam.StartsWith(lastParamStart, StringComparison.Ordinal))
                {
                    unsignedToken = serializedToken.Substring(0, lastSeparator);
                }
            }

            SimpleWebTokenKeyIdentifierClause clause      = new SimpleWebTokenKeyIdentifierClause(simpleWebToken.Audience);
            InMemorySymmetricSecurityKey      securityKey = null;

            try
            {
                securityKey = (InMemorySymmetricSecurityKey)this.Configuration.IssuerTokenResolver.ResolveSecurityKey(clause);
            }
            catch (InvalidOperationException)
            {
                throw new SecurityTokenValidationException("A Symmetric key was not found for the given key identifier clause.");
            }

            string generatedSignature = GenerateSignature(unsignedToken, securityKey.GetSymmetricKey());

            if (string.CompareOrdinal(generatedSignature, simpleWebToken.Signature) != 0)
            {
                throw new SecurityTokenValidationException("The signature on the incoming token is invalid.");
            }
        }
        protected override bool TryResolveSecurityKeyCore(SecurityKeyIdentifierClause keyIdentifierClause, out SecurityKey key)
        {
            key = null;
            SimpleWebTokenKeyIdentifierClause keyClause = keyIdentifierClause as SimpleWebTokenKeyIdentifierClause;

            if (keyClause != null)
            {
                string base64Key = null;
                _keys.TryGetValue(keyClause.Audience, out base64Key);
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(base64Key))
                {
                    key = new InMemorySymmetricSecurityKey(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(base64Key));
                    return(true);
                }
            }

            return(false);
        }
        // </Snippet9>

        // <Snippet10>
        /// <summary>
        /// Serializes the given SecurityToken to the XmlWriter.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="writer">XmlWriter into which the token is serialized.</param>
        /// <param name="token">SecurityToken to be serialized.</param>
        public override void WriteToken(XmlWriter writer, SecurityToken token)
        {
            SimpleWebToken simpleWebToken = token as SimpleWebToken;

            if (simpleWebToken == null)
            {
                throw new SecurityTokenException("The given token is not of the expected type 'SimpleWebToken'.");
            }

            string signedToken = null;

            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(simpleWebToken.SerializedToken))
            {
                StringBuilder strBuilder = new StringBuilder();

                bool skipDelimiter = true;
                NameValueCollection tokenProperties = simpleWebToken.GetAllProperties();

                // remove the signature if present
                if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(tokenProperties[SimpleWebTokenConstants.Signature]))
                {
                    tokenProperties.Remove(SimpleWebTokenConstants.Signature);
                }

                foreach (string key in tokenProperties.Keys)
                {
                    if (tokenProperties[key] != null)
                    {
                        if (!skipDelimiter)
                        {
                            strBuilder.Append(ParameterSeparator);
                        }

                        strBuilder.Append(String.Format(
                                              CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                                              "{0}={1}",
                                              HttpUtility.UrlEncode(key),
                                              HttpUtility.UrlEncode(tokenProperties[key])));

                        skipDelimiter = false;
                    }
                }

                string serializedToken = strBuilder.ToString();

                SimpleWebTokenKeyIdentifierClause clause      = new SimpleWebTokenKeyIdentifierClause(simpleWebToken.Audience);
                InMemorySymmetricSecurityKey      securityKey = null;
                try
                {
                    securityKey = (InMemorySymmetricSecurityKey)this.Configuration.IssuerTokenResolver.ResolveSecurityKey(clause);
                }
                catch (InvalidOperationException)
                {
                    throw new SecurityTokenValidationException("A Symmetric key was not found for the given key identifier clause.");
                }

                // append the signature
                string signature = GenerateSignature(serializedToken, securityKey.GetSymmetricKey());
                strBuilder.Append(String.Format(
                                      CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,
                                      "{0}{1}={2}",
                                      ParameterSeparator,
                                      HttpUtility.UrlEncode(SimpleWebTokenConstants.Signature),
                                      HttpUtility.UrlEncode(signature)));

                signedToken = strBuilder.ToString();
            }
            else
            {
                // reuse the stored serialized token if present
                signedToken = simpleWebToken.SerializedToken;
            }

            string encodedToken = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(signedToken));

            writer.WriteStartElement(BinarySecurityToken);
            writer.WriteAttributeString("Id", "http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-wssecurity-utility-1.0.xsd", token.Id);
            writer.WriteAttributeString(ValueType, SimpleWebTokenConstants.ValueTypeUri);
            writer.WriteAttributeString(EncodingType, Base64EncodingType);
            writer.WriteString(encodedToken);
            writer.WriteEndElement();
        }