Just a quick update: we published preview 2 of Duende IdentityServer to Nuget! The big feature added in preview 2 is the final version of key management. We polished the API surface, added support for multiple keys and added the EF persistence layer. You can find the preview docs here. If there are any problems, please let us know on our issue tracker or contact us via our website. Duende IdentityServer Nuget package EF and ASP.

This is the first part in a series of posts covering new (and old) features of Duende IdentityServer. These posts are not supposed to be super technical deep dives (that’s what documentation is for), but rather explain the feature at a more conceptual level, why it exists, and why it might useful for you. The Problem Obviously, a very important part of a security token service is the key material to sign the actual security tokens.

Just a quick update: we published preview 1 of Duende IdentityServer to Nuget! Preview sounds scary - but this is really just the migrated code-base of IdentityServer4 and the initial feature set of the new automatic key management (I will publish a separate post going into more details about that soon). Duende IdentityServer is free for development and testing. Start here and give it a try! Here’s a list of all the new bits:

Welcome to Duende Software! This company was founded by Brock Allen and Dominick Baier. We’ve been working together since 2009 on free open-source security software. Probably the most well-known is IdentityServer, which is an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 framework for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core. In 2020 we decided to make the switch from free open-source to a stronger foundation to work on our software. If you are interested in the long version of the history see here.