Windows Identity Foundation
is a Framework developed by Microsoft to help applications/service to recognize
and use Security Tokens based on claims. In short it enables Claim
Based Authentication for Applications and Services.
WIF provides a set of APIs which the applications can make use of to recognize the details from the claims, it helps applications to make decisions on whether to Grant/Deny access to the user/service based on the details in the Claims.
WIF provides a set of APIs which the applications can make use of to recognize the details from the claims, it helps applications to make decisions on whether to Grant/Deny access to the user/service based on the details in the Claims.
WIF provides a utility FedUtil,
which helps in establishing the Trust between applications and the Identity
Provider (STS).
