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OAuth and OpenID Connect

OAuth and OpenID Connect

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OAuth and OpenID Connect

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- [Instructor] The OAuth and OpenID Connect protocols provide a federated single sign-on experience for the web. You've probably already used these protocols. You just might not know them by those names. Many popular web services use these protocols to rely upon identity providers, including LinkedIn, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others. Let's take a look at these protocols in action. Here I am at the lynda.com homepage. When I click the Sign In button here, I'm presented with a few options. I might choose to sign on with a lynda.com account or using my own organization's single sign-on process. But the blue button here is inviting me to sign in using my LinkedIn account. When I click that button, a new tab opens. And I want you to notice a few things here. First, in the URL bar, we're left at linkedin.com domain. So this is not a lynda.com site anymore. We're now on a linkedin.com site. The second thing I want you to notice…

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