Azure API Management is an API gateway that can be used to publish APIs to the Internet. It provides features such as per-developer API keys, request throttling and request authentication. One of the way requests can be authenticated is through standard OAuth2 bearer tokens. I assume that the most common scenario is to use Azure… Continue reading Using ADFS with Azure API Management
Regaining Access to Azure VM with Expired Password
Lately I’ve been doing some experiments with Active Directory and of course I’m running my lab environment in Azure. It works great, until after 42 days the password of the one and only user account (mine) in the domain expires. Azure only provides remote desktop access to virtual machines, and in a default setup it’s… Continue reading Regaining Access to Azure VM with Expired Password
Expression Bodied vs. Auto Read-Only Properties
C#6 brought some nice short-hand ways of handling properties. I really like them, because they take away much boilerplate code. But as with all new tools, it’s easy to use them wrongly until they are familiar. These are two attempts to declare a readonly property that preserves the time stamp of when the object was… Continue reading Expression Bodied vs. Auto Read-Only Properties
Going Independent
After more than 8 years at Kentor the time as come to move on. I’m leaving Kentor and starting my own business. I will continue to work with identity and access management, especially SAML2 on .NET. I will do consulting, open source development and training, both on site and remotely. The Kentor.AuthServices project will be… Continue reading Going Independent
Kentor.AuthServices 0.21.2 Security Release
Kentor.AuthServices 0.21.2 has just been released to NuGet. It is a security release fixing three issues. XML External Entity Injection (affecting .NET 4.5 only) Malicious IdP can cause write to arbitrary file Flawed ReturnUrl validation leads to Open Redirect The first two issues were reported by John Heasman, Morgan Roman and Joshua Estalilla from DocuSign.… Continue reading Kentor.AuthServices 0.21.2 Security Release