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Advanced API Security: OAuth 2.0 and Beyond
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Advanced API Security: OAuth 2.0 and Beyond

by Prabath Siriwardena
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
455 pages
10h 33m
English
Apress
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© Prabath Siriwardena 2020
P. SiriwardenaAdvanced API Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2050-4_4

4. OAuth 2.0 Fundamentals

Prabath Siriwardena1 
(1)
San Jose, CA, USA
 

OAuth 2.0 is a major breakthrough in identity delegation. It has its roots in OAuth 1.0 (see Appendix B), but OAuth Web Resource Authorization Profiles (see Appendix B) primarily influenced it. The main difference between OAuth 1.0 and 2.0 is that OAuth 1.0 is a standard protocol for identity delegation, whereas OAuth 2.0 is a highly extensible authorization framework. OAuth 2.0 is already the de facto standard for securing APIs and is widely used by Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft (MSN, Live), PayPal, Instagram, Foursquare, GitHub, Yammer, Meetup, and many more. There ...

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