I'm building a web app which will have an api and an authorization service using DotNetOpenAuth. I found this example on how you can authorize using a service provider that already exists but I would like an example on how to implement a service provider that can create tokens, persist them and do evaluation. Is there any great articles or sample providers that I can download?
For most cases, we recommend using the Authorization Code Flow with PKCE because the Access Token is not exposed on the client side, and this flow can return Refresh Tokens. To learn more about how this flow works and how to implement it, see Authorization Code Flow with Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE).
The client_id is a public identifier for apps. Even though it's public, it's best that it isn't guessable by third parties, so many implementations use something like a 32-character hex string. If the client ID is guessable, it makes it slightly easier to craft phishing attacks against arbitrary applications.
OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorization. OAuth 2.0 focuses on client developer simplicity while providing specific authorization flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones, and living room devices.
Update
DotNetOpenAuth has moved on since this was initially posted. I strongly suggest you follow Ashish's advise and take a look at the samples. It contains code to write Authorization Servers, Resource Servers and Clients for all the major flows.
If you wanted a pre built solution, with opensource code
Thinktecture Identity Server is an Open Source .NET security token service. It supports a number of endpoints for authentication including OAuth 2.0 Bearer tokens.
Update this Thinktecture Identity Server is now on version 2 and supports these OAuth 2.0 flows
again take a look at the code to see how it was all done and there are samples here to show how to plumb it in.
I hope this helps - these library's and examples have hugely helped us over the past few months.
Update
There is also another example warning, it looks dated of a simple OAuth provider for MVC here Sample code here
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