Information on Design and Implementation :

The NAF system is a access control middleware that is used to build identity and access control solution for modern application, including single sign-on, identity management, and authorization and API security.

It is mainly chosen for the following reasons:

Cost Effective
o It is highly supported by the open source community and it integrates well with other technologies of choice
∙ Microsoft ASP.NET Core framework

Is a middleware component that add the specification of OpenID Connect and OAuth2.0 endpoints to the ASP.NET Core applications

It integrates well with Microsoft ASP.NET Core Identity Management framework

It support the ASP.NET Identity for managing the identity database for the users ∙ Entity Framework (EF)

It supports and allow the configuration and the implementation of Entity framework supported databases

Active Directory It integrates well with Active Directory Federation Services, for the implementation of Single Sign-On

(SSO)
It also integrate, support and implement the idea of Federation gateway

Authentication Protocols
It support the widely used, deployed and the implementation of the following Authentication

API Gateway
It support and implement the OAuth2 protocol that allows the application to request access token used from the security token service (STS).

It has also been used to federate authentication to other ID provides, e.g., the national identity card system and others.

It also includes eKYC mechanisms to prove contactless identity