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Identity Broker: An SSO Protocol Transition From OpenID Connect To WS-Federation

  • Federation
  • Identity Providers
  • OpenID Connect

I’ve been building up to more complex federation use cases over the past year. In previous posts, we explored the details of OpenID Connect(OIDC) and WS-Federation (WS-Fed). In those posts, we covered basic scenarios of how to use each protocol to integrate one Relying Party (Service Provider,…

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Summary of Azure Active Directory OAuth2 Authorization Grant and OIDC Authentication Flow Uses

  • Active Directory
  • Authentication
  • Authorization

A while back I needed a summary of which protocols were supported/recommended in different situations by Azure Active Directory while I was researching the “When To Use Which (OAuth2) Grants and (OIDC) Flows” post. So, I am summarizing it here.

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JWT Use Cases

  • JWT
  • OAuth2
  • OpenID Connect

This post explores the equivalent JWT use cases corresponding to the five SAML2 use cases that were explored earlier in this series. We had to build up our tool set to get to this point — including exploring JWT, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and the supporting specs. To be ready for this moment, we’ve…

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OpenID Connect Logout

  • API Gateways
  • Application Security
  • Authentication

The OpenID Connect (OIDC) family of specs supports logout (from a single application) and global (or single) logout (from all applications that the user has logged into through the OpenID Provider, OP), but these features are optional or in draft status (as of Q2, 2017). So, these spec features may…

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