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• An Illustrated Guide to OAuth
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2025

  Are you implementing an auth server or integrating with one?

  Regardless, the last time I dug into this topic I ended up feeling the same. The web is littered with articles that scratch the surface and only cover the basics. They often leave out the details, which IME ended up making things more difficult to understand. What was the most helpful, as you said, was to follow the RFCs and the OIDC spec directly.

  What might also be useful, if you are implementing an auth server, is to look at existing implementations. [Duende IdentityServer](https://github.com/DuendeSoftware/products/tree/main/identit...) is the most widely-used one in the .NET space.

• Identity server 4
  1 project | /r/dotnet | 11 Dec 2023

  Its deprecated in favor of Duende Identityserver which introduced a license model.

• How does cookie based authentication work?
  1 project | /r/dotnetcore | 4 Nov 2022

  Tokens usually have a lifetime and they are separate from the user's authentication principals like username and password. Unless you are rolling your own form of token provider (not something that would be recommended) the token creation is handled for you. Take a look at https://identityserver4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ or if your organization makes under 1M in income a year the free version of what Identity Server progressed into https://duendesoftware.com/products/identityserver

• Ask HN: Examples of Top C# Code?
  29 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2022
• ImageSharp leaving the .NET Foundation due to licensing change
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2022

  I think Duende (Identity Server) handled the situation pretty well.

  https://duendesoftware.com/products/identityserver

  > Standard License Pricing

• Seeking people for collaboration on open source projects I started. Also open to ideas. Preferably long-term. I can help you learn and you can help me with other things, such as coding, UI and more. Beginner friendly. Safe environment.
  2 projects | /r/ProgrammingBuddies | 16 Oct 2022

  Thanks for your message. No, the idea was not to re-implement OAuth nor OpenID stuff. What I had in mind for the authentication thingy was something like this: https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/sanctum. If we want to go the OAuth/OpenID way, in .NET we have this one: https://github.com/DuendeSoftware/IdentityServer.

• If you were tasked with implementing Identity and Access Management today, what would you do?
  2 projects | /r/dotnet | 3 Oct 2022
• Bytebase: 20-Person Startup, 30 SaaS Services, and $1,183 Monthly Bill
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2022
• Why is authentication such a sh*t show with .NET 6?
  3 projects | /r/dotnet | 11 Jun 2022

  He's referring to IdentityServer 3/4, which was open sourced, and was not owned by Microsoft. That 3rd party is commercializing their work (and to be fair, it's a lot of work) as https://duendesoftware.com/products/identityserver , and has a different commercial licensing model.

• Show HN: Open-Source Identity Server Written in Go (Ory Kratos)
  9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2022

  https://github.com/DuendeSoftware/IdentityServer/blob/main/L... does not seem to square with any definition of "open source" I'm familiar with, and that goes double for having an in-repo file that just says "read this unversioned pdf on some other site"

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