Building Microservices with .NET Core
by Soumya Mukherjee, Gaurav Aroraa, Lalit Kale, Manish Kanwar
What is OpenID Connect?
OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. OpenID Connect is all about authentication. It allows clients to verify end users based on the authentication performed by an authorization server. Also, it is used to obtain basic profile information about the end user in an interoperable and REST-like manner.
So OpenID Connect allows clients of all types--web-based, mobile, and JavaScript--to request and receive information about authenticated sessions and end users. We know that OAuth 2.0 defines access tokens. Well, OpenID Connect defines a standardized identity token (commonly referred to as ID token). The identity token is sent to the application so the application can validate who ...
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