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It seems like many app providers are using OAuth2 to allow API access, such as Twitter and Facebook. Does anyone use a good library to do OAuth2 processing that is general enough to use across all applications?
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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.
OAuth 2.0 is much more usable, but much more difficult to build securely. Much more flexible. OAuth 1.0 only handled web workflows, but OAuth 2.0 considers non-web clients as well.
OAuth is a token based authorization mechanism for REST Web API. You develop the authorization with the API only once up until the expiration time of the token. The generated token is then used each time the REST Web API is called, saving an authorization step every time the REST Web API is called.
Integrating OAuth 2.0 into your app has several benefits: It allows you to read data of a user from another application. It supplies the authorization workflow for web, desktop applications, and mobile devices. Is a server side web app that uses authorization code and does not interact with user credentials.
I didn't look into it's internals (source code link is broken), but in general DotNetOpenAuth seems to be quite professional.
Update: OAuth 2 and OpenID are now supported as well.
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You should look on OAuth2. It is .NET implementation of OAuth 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 protocol for most of the popular providers:
Nuget package is there.
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