System.Security.Claims

This assembly provides support for claims-based identities for the System.Security.Principal.IIdentity and System.Security.Principal.IPrincipal interfaces.

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• We only consider lower-risk or high-impact fixes to maintain or improve quality

Source

• Claim, ClaimsIdentity, ClaimsPrincipal, GenericIdentity, GenericPrincipal and other foundational elements are in the src subdirectory.
• WindowsIdentity and WindowsPrincipal are part of the System.Security.Principal.Windows library.
• Claims, Identities, or Principals created from the Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.Saml, Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens, or System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt assemblies are in the AzureAD/azure-activedirectory-identitymodel-extensions-for-dotnet repository.

Deployment

The System.Security.Claims assembly is part of the shared framework, and ships with every new release of .NET.