The configuration section 'system.identityModel' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration
If you see the following error message in your WIF enabled application:
The configuration section 'system.identityModel' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration.
Don’t search the solution too far, the issue is exactly as the error message is saying. You probably forgot to add he configuration section and namespace declaration under the <configSections> element in your app.config or web.config:
Who is saying that error messages can’t be descriptive?