Overview of Identity in ASP.NET Core 2.0

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Overview of Identity in ASP.NET Core 2.0
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Introduction

• ASP.NET Core Identity, a membership system, or
  login provider, is used by Dot Net apps to access
  login functions.
• Whenever we install an application, we know that
  almost all applications ask our identification
  this login information (confidential information)
  is stored in the identity racks of application.
• And nowadays due to access use of social media
  accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and
  Google), some apps make use of external login
  providers, that make use of OAuth or OpenID.
  Names, passwords, phone numbers, addresses are
  stored in the persistent layer database such as
  MS-SQL by performing basic steps of configuration
  or the use of Tokens are done to just
  authenticate and authorize them.
• Besides this, other objectives of using identity
  in ASP.NET Core 2.0 are as follows.

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The Need and Purpose of Identity in ASP.NET Apps

• Authentication of users before giving them
  complete access.
• Registration of new users.
• authorization of users data
• Security policy implementation such as Renewal of
  passwords or resetting identification in case of
  forgetting the old one.
• Rich set management services and cookie
  configuration.
• Maintaining the user profile, data, and other
  personal information.

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1 Importance of Identity for Security

• With in-built Identity library in ASP.NET,
  developers can maintain the security of their
  application.
• The identity parameter enables programmers to
  store insightful secrets of coding, these
  parameters separate the confidential information
  from the coding context and thus security is
  maintained.
• Furthermore, apps can also overcome vulnerability
  attacks and security breaches.

2 Using ASP.NET Core Identity Model

• The big picture of using the identity model
  entails EF core model, an entity framework model,
  which has various entities for representing a
  user, a role, claiming process, authentication
  token for the user, creates a relationship
  between user and login, granting multiple claims
  and establishing join entities as presented by
  Microsoft documentation.

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3 The Architecture Model of ASP.NET Core 2.0
Identity

• The default architecture of ASP.NET Core
  primarily consists of two classes
• The managers are also named as a high-level
  class, used by developers to create identities or
  other higher operations. Moreover, these
  operations are not associated with lower classes.
• The low-level classes interact with the data
  access layer and pursue the repository pattern.

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4 Customized Model for Application

• On top of that, ASP.NET Core Identity
  architecture is a large system that gives
  customization.
• Customize architecture carries different
  templates, interfaces, styles for developing
  applications. For example, when you prefer
  different database template (i.e. Dapper or Azure
  table storage) for your project, the default
  architecture doesnt work for you.
• But thanks to custom storage providers, which
  helps to do writing, editing, and creation of
  customized provider and then also provide a
  plug-in tool.
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