Summary

Brock Allen talks to me about Identity Server, authentication and balancing a consulting job with an open source project.

Details

Who he is and what he does; what Identity Server is and how it works, OpenId Connect, OAuth 2, examples of the protocols; Dominick Baier; what's wrong with a username and password, single sign on; how Identity Server works, can use multiple types of authentication, federation gateway pattern, third party permissions; Identity Server users, claims, roles, authorization, policy based authorization; are they building it for Microsoft, other third party libraries Microsoft is pushing; testing Identity Server; balancing consulting and building Identity Server; release candidate.