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_3

3. Evolution of Identity

Yvonne Wilson¹  and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

—George Orwell, from Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940)

Over the years, there has been an ongoing evolution in how identity information is stored and used to enable users to access applications and the functionality they provide. You’ll see in this chapter that each bit of progress has solved some problems but given rise to new ones, as technology and security challenges evolved. We’ll describe some ...