A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control: claims provide an innovative approach for building applications that authenticate and authorize users. Imagine a world where you don't have to worry about authentication. Imagine instead that all requests to your application already include the information...

The goal of this whitepaper is to help developers get started building claims-aware applications using Windows Identity Foundation. This paper introduces concepts and terminology to help developers understand the benefits and concepts behind the claims-based model of identity. Most developers are not...