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Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is a
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for building identity-aware applications. It provides
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. Version 1.0 shipped as a standalone product, but the product is now included as a part of Microsoft .NET Framework v4.5.


Major features

WIF has the following major features: * It allows developers to build claims-aware applications by providing a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that help developers write code to make access decisions to applications based on claims. * It provides templates to help developers get started building claims-aware applications. * It provides utilities that facilitate creation of a trust relationship between a claims-aware application (sometimes referred to as a Relying on Party application, or RP), and a Security Token Service (STS). * It provides a set of ASP.NET controls that help developers create web pages in claims-aware applications. * It includes a utility that helps developers translate between claims and NT tokens, so that claims-aware applications can be used to access resources that require NT-Token based identity. * It includes functionality that allows identities to be maintained across multiple service boundaries, and allows delegation of claims. * It provides tools to help developers build custom security token services using ASP.NET or WCF.


See also

* Claims based identity *
Security Token Service Security token service (STS) is a cross-platform open standard core component of the OASIS group's WS-Trust web services single sign-on infrastructure framework specification.. Within that claims-based identity framework, a secure token service i ...


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External links


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"Windows Identity Foundation site"
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