Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.OpenIdConnect by: Microsoft

Includes types that provide support for OpenIdConnect protocol.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens by: Microsoft

Includes types that provide support for SecurityTokens, Cryptographic operations: Signing, Verifying Signatures, Encryption.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens by: Microsoft

Includes types that provide support for creating, serializing and validating JSON Web Tokens. This is a newer, faster version of System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt that has additional functionality.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.Saml by: Microsoft

Includes types that provide support for SamlTokens version 1 and 2.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Logging by: Microsoft

Includes Event Source based logging support.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols by: Microsoft

Provides base protocol support for OpenIdConnect and WsFederation.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory by: Microsoft

There is a newer version of this library available here: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Identity.Client/ Migration guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/msal-net-migration ADAL no longer receives new feature improvements.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WsFederation by: Microsoft

Includes types that provide support for WsFederation protocol.

Microsoft.Identity.Web by: Microsoft

This package enables ASP.NET Core web apps and web APIs to use the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0). This package is specifically used for web applications, which sign-in users, and protected web APIs, which optionally call downstream web APIs.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Abstractions by: Microsoft

A package containing thin abstractions for Microsoft.IdentityModel.

Microsoft.Identity.Web.TokenCache by: Microsoft

This package bring token cache serializers for MSAL.NET confidential client applications.

Microsoft.Identity.Web.TokenAcquisition by: Microsoft

Implementation for higher level API for confidential client applications (ASP.NET Core and SDK/.NET).

Microsoft.Identity.Web.MicrosoftGraph by: Microsoft

This package enables ASP.NET Core web apps and web APIs to use the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0). This package is specifically used for web applications, which sign-in users and call Microsoft Graph, and for protected web APIs that call Microsoft Graph.

Microsoft.Identity.Web.Diagnostics by: Microsoft

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Microsoft.Identity.Web.Certificateless by: Microsoft

This package brings certificateless authentication.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.LoggingExtensions by: Microsoft

A package containing logging extensions to support writing Identity logs to Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.ILogger.

Microsoft.Identity.Web.Certificate by: Microsoft

This package brings certificate management for MSAL.NET.

Microsoft.Identity.Web.TokenAcquisition.Abstractions by: Microsoft

Interface for higher level API for confidential client applications.

Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WsTrust by: Microsoft

Includes types that provide support for creating, serializing and validating WsTrust Messages.

Microsoft.IdentityModel by: Microsoft

Windows Identity Foundation enables .NET developers to externalize identity logic from their application, improving developer productivity, enhancing application security, and enabling interoperable federation. Enjoy greater productivity, applying the same tools and programming model to build on-premises software as well as cloud services. Create more secure applications by reducing custom implementations and using a single simplified identity model based on claims. Enjoy greater flexibility in application deployment through interoperability based on industry standard protocols, allowing applications and identity infrastructure services to communicate via claims.