What is OAuth (Open Authorization) and Why is it Important?

Written by Aniket Kambli | Published 2021/05/19
Tech Story Tags: authorization | authentication | oauth | security | multifactor-authentication | user-authentication | user-authorization-methods | credentials

TLDR OAuth (Open Authorization) is used for authorization and authentication purposes. There is another protocol which lies on top of OAuth called OpenID connect which is used to authenticate users. In this blog, I will be talking about what is OAuth and the importance of the OAuth, and various OAuth flows. OAuth is used in the most widely used type of flow in OAuth. It is used by the server responsible for authorizing the user and checking if the user is who he claims to be.via the TL;DR App
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Written by Aniket Kambli | Member of technical staff at www.udgama.com
Published by HackerNoon on 2021/05/19
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