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OpenID

OpenID connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. You can read more about OpenID connect on the internet at https://openid.net/connect. It allows clients to verify the identity of the end-user based on the authentication performed by an authorization server, as well as to obtain basic profile information about the end-user in an interoperable and REST-like manner. All cloud providers, including Azure, Amazon, and Google support OpenID. The main difference with OAuth2 is the additional field returned with the access token called an id_token. This token is a JSON Web Token (JWT) with well-known fields (user's email for example), signed by the server. To identify the user, the authenticator uses the id_token ...