April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
564 pages
24h 7m
English
OpenID Connect is a layer on top of OAuth introduced in 2015. The success of OpenID Connect is that it returns the simple JSON-based identity tokens (JWT) {pronounced as Jawt} signed by the OpenID provider (OP) through OAuth protocol to suit web, mobile, and browser-based applications. In comparison to OAuth, Open ID Connect actually tells about the user's identity information and instead of getting the access details, it tells exactly about the user accessing a resource. Consider the following diagram:

We can relate an Identity token to a driving license that contains driver information such as license number, ...
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