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_6

6. OpenID Connect

Yvonne Wilson¹   and Abhishek Hingnikar²

(1)

San Francisco, CA, USA

(2)

London, UK

 

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

—Erik Erikson, German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase “Identity crisis,” from Identities: Youth and Crisis (1968)

As described in the previous chapter, OAuth 2 provides a framework for authorizing applications to call APIs, but isn’t designed for authenticating users to applications. The OpenID Connect ...