Using Zermatt’s claims model on WCF: ClaimsPrincipal.Current

In the last post, I briefly presented Zermatt’s claims model. This model can be used in both WCF based services or ASP.NET based web applications.
Beginning with this post, I will describe how this new claims model is integrated into WCF, using WCF’s extensibility points, and also what are some consequences of this integration.
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Zermatt’s claims model

In the last couple of posts, I’ve written about the claims and security token concepts, and also about how WCF models them:

What are claims?
Claims and claims sets in WCF
What are security tokens?
Security tokens in WCF
Authorization policies in WCF: from tokens to claim sets
The ServiceAuthorizationManager class in WCF

In this post I will start writing about how [...]

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