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On “Why is authentication such a sh*t show with .NET 6?”
There were a couple of security focused developers in the .NET space that saw ASP.NET Membership stagnating away and a lack of support for more modern protocols, still using things like SHA for hashing passwords. They were core contributors to the open source application StartSTS / Identity Server created to address the shortcomings in the ASP.NET identity / IAM space and more specifically OpenId and then later OIDC and OAuth.
Dominick Baier worked at the German based company Thinktecture with cofounder Christian Weyer and Ingo Rammer all Microsoft MVPs. With Brock Allen, Dominick started the open source project StarterSTS, which became the popular open source platform Identity Server 4 an…