The Freak Parade

This is the final post in a series of posts about managing digital identity in a .NET world. See Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 for background and some discussion.

The Foundations

The Laws of Identity
Kim Cameron’s Laws of Identity – setting the rules for the Identity Metasystem

Introducing the Identity Metasystem
Kim Cameron introduces the Identity Metasystem

The Identity Metasystem
Kim Cameron’s white paper on the Identity Metasystem

The Architecture Journal – Issue 16 – Identity and Access
A whole issue of the Architecture Journal dedicated just to Identity. Very good issue. The PDF of the issue is here.

Digital Identity for .NET Applications: A Technology Overview
This is an in depth examination of digital identity, claims, tokens SAML and the lot, in the .net world by Dave Chappell

Zermatt Links

Zermatt Whitepaper for Developer’s
A developer oriented overview of Zermatt, its architecture and its capabilities. The first thing you should read if you are interested in Zermatt.

A New .NET Identity Class
This is a general purpose article examining the new Zermatt class library.

Implementing an Identity Provider and Relying Party using ASP.NET MVC
An end to end examination of using Zermatt to create an IP and an RP using MVC.

Using Zermatt’s claims model on WCF: ClaimsPrincipal.Current
A blog post describing how to set up Zermatt to work with WCF’s security model

Getting Down with Zermatt
A nice, brief introduction to getting up and running with the Zermatt SDK

A Visual Studio Template for Zermatt Powered Websites
Well ain’t that cool…

Steve Maine (of the MVC world) introduces Zermatt…

Zermatt: Using Forms Authentication in a Passive STS
Setting up Zermatt as a non-Windows Auth based STS

Create a Basic STS Using Zermatt
Another good article on creating an STS using Zermatt

Identity Oriented Blogs

Kim Cameron’s Identity Blog
This is THE blog for keeping abreast of the identity landscape. Kim Cameron proposed the Laws of Identity which sets up the rules for the Identity Metasystem. A very interesting blog by an identity luminary.

Least Privelege
This blog deals with many things WCF and Identity related, but is an excellent resource if you have any interest in this topic at all.

Vibro.NET
This blog is listed on the MS Connect site for Zermatt as one of two blogs to follow for Zermatt info. The other is Kim Cameron’s blog.

Claim’s Based Security in WCF

Building a Claims Based Security Model in WCF, and Part 2
This is a set of articles by Michele Leroux Bustamante describing how to set up a claims based security model in good old legacy WCF (that is, WCF prior to Zermatt).

Misc Links

Creating an STS in .NET
This is a general purpose MSDN article on creating an STS. Really it’s a short description of signing tokens and setting up a SOAP response.

Introducing InfoCard (via CardSpace)
Dave Chapell talks about CardSpace