Microsoft has just announced Windows Azure Authentication Library in the Windows Azure AD Developer Preview.
The library enables you to:
- Prompt the user to authenticate against Windows Azure AD directory tenants, AD FS 2.0 servers and all the identity providers supported by Azure AD Access Control (Windows Live ID, Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, any OpenID provider, any WS-Federation provider)
- Take advantage of username/password or the Kerberos ticket of the current workstation user for obtaining tokens programmatically
- Leverage service principal credentials for obtaining tokens for server to server service calls
More about AAL :http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/08/01/introducing-a-new-capability-in-the-windows-azure-ad-developer-preview-the-windows-azure-authentication-library.aspx
If you need a deeper dive, then visit captain’s security post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2012/08/01/windows-azure-authentication-library-a-deep-dive.aspx
Posted
Aug 02 2012, 12:35 AM
by
Damir Dobric