Summary
In this chapter, we reviewed OAuth 2, a relatively recent technology for user authentication and credentials management. OAuth 2 has a very wide reach on the web and has made great strides in usability and acceptance within the past year or two. Most public-facing sites on the modern web should plan on having some form of OAuth 2 support, and the JBCP calendar application is no exception!
In this chapter, we learned about the following topics the OAuth 2 authentication mechanism and its high-level architecture and key terminology. We also learned about the OAuth 2 login and automatic user registration with the JBCP calendar application. We also covered automatic login with OAuth 2 and the security of OAuth 2's login responses.
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