Category Archives: Security

Retrieving the twitter identity

In the previous article I showed how to use OAuth to connect to twitter. At this point all the authentication and authorization has been done and we are busy with the last step to retrieve the Identity information from twitter specifically.

My first glimpse at OAuth 2.0.

So what is this OAuth?  This is what wikipedia says: OAuth is an open standard for authorization, commonly used as a way for Internet users to authorize websites or applications to access their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords.[1] This mechanism is used by companies such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft and… Read More »

Creating your own Active STS

The following example uses an active security token service (A-STS) that issues tokens using the WS-Trust standard. The type of STS discussed in this post is called a Active STS OR A-STS, it refers to the client that is actively in control of its own authenticated state. This client will typically have its own login window build into the… Read More »