How should I handle user identity for a Window Phone / WCF / ASP.NET MVC application?

Question

I\'m working on an application which allows data entry and display from both a Windows Phone application and an MVC 3 web interface. Data access for the phone client is via aut

Answer 1

Dear Jon, I have no experience on WP development but I have made a a little search for WCF Auth. for couple of days recently and found out that the apiKey auth is nearly the best way to me. Rob Jacobs has explained how it works on this article;

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rjacobs/archive/2010/06/14/how-to-do-api-key-verification-for-rest-services-in-net-4.aspx