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13. Secure Your Application with OpenId Connect

Anthony Giretti1  
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La Salle, QC, Canada
 
I can’t finish this book without talking to you about safety. Security is essential in an application, by which I mean that almost all applications need a mechanism to identify the user attempting to perform actions on your application. This is called authentication, which should not be confused with authorization, a mechanism allowing privileges to be given to an authenticated user—that is, allowing the user to perform specific actions that unauthorized users are not able to perform. ...

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