idunno.Authentication

This repository contains a collection of various authentication mechanisms for ASP.NET Core, including

Basic Authentication started as a demonstration of how to write authentication middleware and was not as something you would seriously consider using, but apparently lots of you want Basic Authentication for apis, webhooks and other things so here it is.

Certificate Authentication was a common request on the ASP.NET Core Security repo, so I wrote one for ASP.NET Core 2.x. ASP.NET Core 3.0 took that as a starting point and includes Certificate Authentication as a supported package.

Shared Key Authentication is almost an implementation of the shared secret authentication Azure Blob Storage uses, with the Azure specific things like tenant identifier removed. If you're going to use this in a real project you should have someone else look over the hashing used to reassure yourself (and me) that it doesn't have any mistakes.

ASP.NET Core versions supported

Basic Authentication is available for ASP.NET Core 2.1 and later. Shared Key Authentication is available for ASP.NET Core 3.1 and later. Certification Authentication is only targeted at ASP.NET Core 2.1, for later versions use the official package.

This is not an official Microsoft project, this is an "In my spare time, entirely unsupported"™ effort.

nuget packages

nuget packages are available.

Authentication Type	nuget package
Basic	https://www.nuget.org/packages/idunno.Authentication.Basic/
SharedKey	https://www.nuget.org/packages/idunno.Authentication.SharedKey/
Certificate	https://www.nuget.org/packages/idunno.Authentication.Certificate/

Azure Artifacts holds a feed of current dev builds.

Version History

Version	Notes
2.3.1	Added support for credential encoding character sets, latin1 and utf8 to Basic Authentication.
2.3.0	Added Shared key authentication Basic authentication now multi-targets ASP.NET Core 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, ASP.NET 5.0, 6.0 and 7.0
2.2.3	Basic authentication now multi-targets ASP.NET Core 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, .NET 5.0 and .NET 6.0
2.2.2	Basic authentication now multi-targets ASP.NET Core 2.1, 3.0 and 3.1
2.2.1	Basic authentication now returns a 421 request when a request is issued over HTTP, unless AllowInsecureProtocol is set
2.2.0	Basic authentication no longer throws exception when invalid base64 data sent in authentication header Added property for suppressing the WWW-Authenticate header scheme Updated nuget license and package icon
2.1.1	Added SourceLink Changed library dependencies to remove demands for exact versions, following the .NET Core open-source library guidance nuget package is now signed
2.1.0	Added Certificate Authentication Fixed Basic Authentication event handling Packages are now Authenticode signed

Notes

Each handler requires you to authenticate the credentials passed. You are responsible for hardening this authentication and ensuring it performs under load.