Introduction

Altairis Identity Toolkit is set of components which will allow you to add any kind of authentication (such as Windows Live ID or Information Cards / CardSpace) to any application, which is based on ASP.NET memership and forms authentication.

The toolkit is designed to be extensible in terms of possible forms of authentication (Live ID and personal InfoCards are supported now) and in terms of how the claims got from given authentication methods are mapped to membership users.

Overall architecture

Altairis Identity Toolkit provides missing pieces between endpoints for reading the claims from the desired authentication methods (they are generally described in SDKs and such) and the membership providers. The overall architecture may be seen on the following picture:



The blue bits are already present in ASP.NET. The red bits are implemented using this toolkit.
More detailed description may be seen in documentation.

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