WIF STS ID3242: The security token could not be authenticated or authorized

Question

I\'m getting the following error in my client application when it tries to authenticate to my service:

ID3242: The security token could not be authenticat

Answer 1

In my case, turning tracing on revealed one more exception that was thrown before

ID3242: The security token could not be authenticated or authorized

Use this to turn on tracing on the WCF side:

Again, in my case, the trace files revealed the following exception:

ID1038: The AudienceRestrictionCondition was not valid because the specified Audience is not present in AudienceUris. Audience: http://some.th.ing/

Turns out the audienceUri was not correct in the WCF Web.config.

Hope this helps