ASP.NET Core Authentication Explained by Wesley Cabus
Ever had to add the ability to your ASP.NET Core web application to authenticate users? Or build an API that needs to verify it's being called by the right clients? Be honest: did you fully understand what you were doing, or did you just copy-paste some code from StackOverflow or your favorite AI assistant and hope for the best?
In this session, I'll explain how authentication actually works in ASP.NET Core from start to finish. We'll begin with configuring the middleware, explore how authentication schemes are selected, and dig into handlers, tokens, cookies and headers.
Bring your questions and leave your fear of AddAuthentication() behind!

Going Passwordless: A Practical Guide to Passkeys in ASP.NET Core by Maarten Balliauw
Passkeys, using the WebAuthn protocol, replace passwords with stronger, simpler, and phishing-resistant authentication using your device's built-in security or a dedicated hardware key.
This session provides a practical introduction to passkey authentication and its implementation in ASP.NET Core applications. We'll explore the fundamentals of passkeys and the underlying public key cryptography. Then, we'll demonstrate how to integrate passkey authentication into your projects, supporting OS management, password managers (like 1Password), and hardware security keys (like a Yubikey).
Join this talk if you want to get a thorough understanding of passkeys and the skills to integrate them into your applications.