Resources on the authentication cycle of SP2010

Question

I'm trying to find in-depth resources on the authentication cycle.

Things like:

• which HTTP requests are done in the process of authentication (mostly with claims based auth)
• which events can we bind to (in IIS, is SP). One particular event is the event that triggers the browser to show the default login window in Windows Claims Auth

Thanks

Answer 1

The below links should comfortably get you all insights you need for claims authentication cycle.

5 part Claims architecture series
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com/sharepoint/claims-based-authentication/sharepoint-claims-based-authentication-architectures-explained-part-2-claims-architecture-priming/

https://www.nothingbutsharepoint.com/sites/itpro/Pages/An-Architecture-for-Claims-Based-Authorization-in-SharePoint.aspx

Claims Auth Sequence http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh147177.aspx#SPO_RA_ClaimsSequence

Claims indepth http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262350.aspx

Extranet Topoloogies and Security Modeling http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eb4bff25-baba-4112-b518-f2fc442d5467

Implementing Claims http://www.shailen.sukul.org/2010/03/claims-based-authentication-with.html

Implementing SSO http://www.theidentityguy.com/articles/tag/sharepoint