OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (in Plain English)

Here’s the Live Action OAuth Theater segment of the talk (5 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYzf2JBdUM8

If you’ve ever tried to search for information on OAuth and/or OpenID Connect, you’ve probably encountered deep dive code examples or references to the specifications. The specifications are great if you’re building OAuth from scratch or suffer from insomnia. Many examples focus on just code, rather than concepts.

These types of resources are not useful for understanding the concepts and historical backdrop for why OAuth and OIDC exist.

In this talk we start with the foundations of federated and delegated authentication and authorization, work our way through concepts and foundations for OAuth and OIDC and end with some practical demonstrations of the standards in action.

Speaker

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Micah Silverman


Micah Silverman is a Senior Developer Advocate for Okta. With 24 years of Java Experience (yup, that’s from the beginning), he’s authored numerous articles, co-authored a Java EE book and ...