Identity Management/Security/P2P/WCF Scott Hanselman has a great post on OpenId P2P and WCF: Some Resources - part of a great series. We use Peer Channel in Neuron by default. It's fast! Using IdentityModel: Converting ADFS Security Properties to Claims Technorati Tags: OpenId , Identity Management , P2P

Last time, I talked a bit about SAML and Federated Identity . It turns out this is a subset of a general area, an area commonly referred to as Identity Management . The issue is how to protect and manage credentials across a wide array of network applications that have different authentication methods and requirements. I talked about SSO last time, mostly around SSO in browsers and web applications. As Pablo reminded me , it's not just web browsers; SAML is trying to solve the problem of SSO

I am dealing with some tough SAML issues, with Michele's help, and I thought I would put in some review notes on SAML for other people to benefit as well. Reference for this material was the book: Securing Web Services with WS-Security.   Introduction In the past, there was no real need to share identities from one organization or company to another. This has changed quite a bit with SOA, Services and the Internet with increased collaboration across trust domains. The need for federation