Wednesday
Room 1
16:20 - 17:20
(UTC+02)
Talk (60 min)
ASP.NET Core Authentication - The Dirty Details
Think you understand ASP.NET Core authentication? Adorable. In this session, we’ll peel back the nice, developer-friendly abstractions you normally work with and dive head‑first into the tangled "stuff" lurking underneath.
We’ll go crawling through handlers, schemes, events, and the various moving parts that somehow work together to decide (how the system decides) who you are and what you can do. This talk won’t just show you _how_ things work, but also _why_ they often work, and why understanding the internals can save you hours of “why is this happening?” therapy.
Expect a deeply technical (level 300–400) exploration that embraces the weird corners of the authentication pipeline most developers never see. Sure, knowing these details will not change your day to day life, but they will make you a more confident, better equipped developer and maybe even give you a few things to laugh about the next time authentication goes sideways. And if you have ever been trapped in a login loop that felt like the system had decided to gaslight you personally, you will walk away knowing exactly why it happened.
Chris Klug
Chris Klug has been building software professionally since sometime around 2000, back when .NET was new, CSS was a suggestion, and Roy Fielding’s REST paper had just been published. Since then he has written code for everything from model agencies to online sports betting to professional sail racing, because staying in one industry sounded far too boring.
He has been a Microsoft MVP for something like 15 years (depending on when he last updated this abstract), which either means he knows a thing or two or that he just talks a lot. Possibly both, but we all know the latter is a given. These days he works at Active Solution in Stockholm, helping clients solve problems and build better systems.
When he is not writing code, Chris is usually geeking out on some form of extreme sport like skydiving, kitesurfing, snowboarding, mountain biking, or wing foiling. He loves learning new things and spends way too much time thinking about weird stuff most people never even notice.