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Using Windows Identity Foundation For Creating Identity - Driven Experiences in Silverlight. Caleb Baker Sr. Program Manager calebb@microsoft.com. Agenda. Identity and Claims Using Claims in Silverlight Wrap Up. What are the Opportunities with Identity?. The Basics.
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UsingWindows Identity Foundation ForCreatingIdentity-DrivenExperiencesin Silverlight Caleb Baker Sr. Program Manager calebb@microsoft.com
Agenda • Identity and Claims • Using Claims in Silverlight • Wrap Up
The Basics Identity is Used to: Control Access • Authentication • Authorization Personalize an Experience
Tear Down the Silos! • Identity is Reusable • Removes Complexity for your Application
Identity As a Service Your Application Identity Provider
Application Claims Identity Provider
Claims A Statement Made by One Entity About Another Entity A Type of Information http://claim.contoso.com/identity/age Containing a Value over 21 According to Whom Department of Licensing
Examples • Name • Address • Age • Frequent Flier • Employer • Gender • Information about a user your app needs
The Companies • A large widget producer. An events planning start-up, which just won a contract with Contoso.
Challenge How Can Fabrikam Provide Access for Contoso Users?
First Solution Users Can register Using Their Work Email
Another Solution Use a claims-based approach
Claims Identity Provider Identity Provider Identity Provider
Claims Identity Provider
How Claims are being sent Communication of Claims WS-Federation WS-Trust What’s Important is these are Standards based. Which Means they Work With other Solutions.
The Ingredients Silverlight 3 or 4 Silverlight SDK Windows Identity Foundation Windows Identity Foundation SDK Training Kit Sample assemblies SL.IdentityModel.dll SL.IdentityModel.Server.dll
Review Fabrikam used Contoso Identities • To Authenticate Users • To Customize the User Experience • Reduce Friction and Complexity
Out Of Browser Moving Out Of the Browser Presents pProblems with Browser Based Authentication
Challenge Requesting Claims to Sign in to Fabrikam from Out of Browser. Browser Redirect work
Solution Request Claims Using a Web Service
Solution Request Fabrikam Response Relying Party Identity Provider
Control Access Grant access control based on claims • Employees should be able to view events • Managers can schedule events
Challenge How does Fabrikam know who is a manager at Contoso?
Option one One way to solve this is with an administrator accounts
Solution With Claims Perform Access Check Using Claims
Mashup Goals for Contoso’s Event Planner Application • Managers can query a local directory for a list of employees. • Call the Fabrikam service with list of invitees.
Challenges How to authenticate a cross site call?
First Solution Have the user provide credentials required to access the service
Username Password Username Password
Claims Based Solution The Contoso Client Application Requests Claims for Fabrikam
Identity Provider Silverlight Application Events Web service
Security Considerations Cross domain call requires Fabrikam to publish one of the following • ClientAccessPolicy.xml • CrossDomain.xml
Cross domain token reuse What prevents Fabrikam from accessing the Contoso service as the user?
Available resources Windows Identity Foundation Released Nov. 2009 Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS RC 2.0) Released the first half of this year Training Kit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=148795 Team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/card
Feedback What seems interesting What else would you like to see? Windows Phone 7? Email: calebb@microsoft.com Forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Geneva/threads/
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