Eric Vogel's articles on authentication (here and here) in ASP.NET Core show what you have to do in order to authenticate a user against a local database. At the end of that process, you're ready to ...

ASP.NET Identity is a simple but robust framework allowing you to easily inject custom authentication logic into your applications. ASP.NET Identity is the latest in a series of frameworks that exist ...

The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

Take advantage of middleware in ASP.NET Core 6 to check the remote IP address of every request, and allow requests only from known and trusted addresses. When working with applications in ASP.NET Core ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. A message authentication code (MAC), or tag, is a security code that is typed in by the user ...