Geneva’s Beta 2 Authorization

The beta 2 “Geneva” framework contains the concept of a claims authorization manager, represented by the ClaimsAuthorizationManager base class. This class contains a single method
public virtual bool CheckAccess(AuthorizationContext context)
that computes the authorization decision for the access represented by context. This object, of AuthorizationContext type, contains the following properties

Subject, of IClaimsPrincipal type, represents the subject [...]

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Geneva’s Beta 2 Claims Model

This week was released the beta 2 of the “Geneva” framework. This framework aims to provide an unified model for claims based identity management and access control. This includes a class model for representing claims-based identities, showed in the next diagram.
 

This class model, present in the Microsoft.IdentityModel.dll assembly, is similar to the one [...]

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Geneva’s Pipeline

Yesterday, I saw the recording of PDC’s session Identity: “Geneva” Deep Dive, which I greatly recommend. Specially interesting was the description of the Geneva pipeline (from 19:55 to 25:20 recording time).

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