Passport Authentication using ASP.Net

I came to know from Stefan Schackow that

"for doing Passport Authentication with ASP.Net you need to setup a relationship with Microsoft
and get approval to use Passport on a web site. The SDKs don't appear
to be pulicly available anymore (at least I couldn't find them
anywhere)."

Single Signon in ASP.Net Application

I was trying to find out is it possible to implement SingleSignon in asp.net1.0(Framework1.1) part from using Forms Authentication from ScottGuthrie(http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu) and Stefan Schackow.
I would like to thank them for their answers.



-Are there any other ways to implement Singlesignon feature using
asp.net?
There are third party products that provide single sign on support for
ASP.NET. Also, Windows Server 2003 R2 includes a feature called Active
Directory Federation Services (ADFS). The driving factor for ADFS was
support for authentication against multiple domains, and the ability to
trust authenticated users from other organizations (e.g. if you log in
against your corporation's website, then you could access a FedEx site
without having to login again). However, ADFS also includes the ability
to log users in using something very similar to forms authentication,
and the ability to share that authentication token across multiple web
sites. There is an overview at:


http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsServer2003/R2/Identity_Management/ADFSwh
itepaper.mspx

And a requirements FAQ at:


http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/1c2f6235-833a-421
e-8529-3e9cd97da6771033.mspx?mfr=true


Other than that, a lot of folks roll their own SSO solution building on
top of forms authentication. If you search the web there are lots of
articles out there with different approaches. Many of them rely on the
ability to customize the forms authentication cookie so it can be shared
across domains. Something that isn't necessarily clear in forms
authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 is that the domain property of the cookie
can be set. If all of your applications live under the same DNS
namepsace (e.g. foo.contoso.com, bar.contoso.com, baz.contoso.com), then
you can login with one application and issue a forms authentication
cookie that will automatically flow to all of the other sites.

If you go with this approach you will need to ensure that all of the
applications and servers that use the forms authentication cookie have
the same encryption material for protecting the forms authentication
ticket. There is info on this at:


http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/
html/PAGHT000007.asp

Time Jobs Fair - Chennai Trade Center

Times has arranged for a Job Fair today(25-Jun-2006) and yesterday at Chennai Trade Center. I was in the interview panel for my company only yesterday, today I got my personal work so i couldn't join the panel. I was there 8.30AM in the morning on 24-Jun-2006.I could see lot of people waiting in the queue to find a job. I would have taken interview for about 15-20people and could select only a single person in VB/.Net Skill and one person I had put on hold. The intial arrangements I should say was not professional, because the interview started around 10.15 AM where people had to stand more than 2 hrs in the scoring sun.

My trip to Mumbai

I coudln't blog for sometime now. I was in Mumbai from Apr 21- Apr27 on vacation. Personally I didn't like mumbai mainly bcoz of traffic. I spent lot of time in traffic during my visit.
I visited shirdi,panchavadi and sidhi vinyak temple,mahalakshmi temple and Essel world. My Family went through Air Deccan flight during my visit, the good thing was the flight was on time from Chennai to Mumbai. From Mumbai to Chn, I spent one hour inside the flight due to air traffic congesion in mumbai.




to be contd.

Moved to a New Job

It has been 1 month since I moved to a new company. My stint with previous company was 3 yrs and 6 months. It was good learning experience for me technically and personally with my previous company. I hope I will get better Opportunities in my new job to go up in the ladder.