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Authentication and authorization

- [Instructor] The first topic in this section is around how to implement user authentication and authorization. The first part of this topic is about how to implement OAuth2 authentication. OAuth, or the Open Authorization Framework, is an openly available authorization pattern. It was created to solve a worldwide problem of how to seamlessly allow users to authenticate and obtain authorization for resources. In the OAuth2 specification, it says that the framework allows third-party applications to get access to HTTP services. Traditionally, this was done by providing the third-party with the owner's own credentials, which was usually a password, this makes restriction and revoking of access difficult. OAuth2 introduces a separate authentication layer where user obtains an access token. This token can contain details about scope, lifetime, et cetera, which means that the resource owners can now have a lot more control…

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