Solving Identity Management in Modern Applications: Demystifying OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, and SAML 2

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Y. Wilson, A. HingnikarSolving Identity Management in Modern Applicationshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8261-8_10

10. Using Modern Identity to Build Applications

Yvonne Wilson¹   and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

—Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computers, as quoted in “The Guts of a New Machine,” New York Times Magazine

The past chapters covered how certain identity protocols provide a solution for authentication, API authorization, and application authorization. It may seem daunting at first to learn these identity protocols, but using them will reduce the ...