Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2.0

© Yvonne Wilson, Abhishek Hingnikar  2019

Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5095-2_22

22. Conclusion

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

I didn’t know I loved so many things and I had to wait until sixty to find it out sitting by the window on the Prague-Berlin train watching the world disappear as if on a journey of no return.

—Nâzim Hikmet, Turkish poet, from “Things I Didn’t Know I Loved” (1962)

The world would be a strange place without identity. It’s woven through much of our lives and enables us to establish trust relationships with others in order to conduct transactions. When conducting those transactions online, identity management ...