An argument for the extra dependency of a library
Lately there has been some blogging activity around C# implementations of OpenID that are "so small you can just host the source code as a single class your web site." …
C# OpenID library DotNetOpenID 2.0 released
The open source OpenID C# library DotNetOpenID has been released. This is a really exciting release that adds full support for OpenID 2.0 while preserving full backward compatibility for interoperating…
DotNetOpenId 2.0 Beta 2 has been released
New since v2.0 beta 1: Providers can send unsolicited assertions Providers can detect and respond to directed identity (identifier_select) requests from relying parties. Completely stateless relying party support (not even…
OpenID 2.0 nonces and ASP.NET HttpRequestValidationException
The OpenId Authentication 2.0 spec’s section on nonces allows for nonces to be made up of any and all ASCII characters in the range of 33-126 inclusive. This includes the…
DotNetOpenId 1.0.1 released
A maintenance release of DotNetOpenId 1.0 has just been posted to the DotNetOpenId project site. The new version (1.0.1) contains just one fix from the 1.0.0 version that corrects a…
DotNetOpenId 1.0 released today, 2.0 beta also released
DotNetOpenId 1.0 RTW The culmination of a great deal of work in refactoring, bug fixing and enhancements can be found in the latest .NET implementation of the OpenId library known…
DotNetOpenId: What’s coming
I’ve been contributing heavily to the open source DotNetOpenId project for the past few weeks. It’s been pretty stagnant for the past year or so and people were complaining. I…
How to add OpenID support to BlogEngine.NET
Although the author of BlogEngine.NET didn’t accept a patch from me to add OpenID support to his open-source blog engine a few months ago, it’s really easy for you to…
New job with Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem
I have accepted a new position within Microsoft with the Visual Studio Platform & Ecosystem team. Rather than working on the .NET Compact Framework I will be working on "VS10". …
How did Schneier hack my Google Reader?
Somehow the "Schneier on Security" blog feed was injected into my Google Reader environment. I have never heard of this guy, and I certainly don’t have his feed in my…