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Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core

You're reading from   Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core An architectural journey into the Microsoft .NET open source platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786468888
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Senthilvel Senthilvel
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 Ullal Ullal
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 Qureshi Qureshi
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 Mehboob Ahmed Khan Mehboob Ahmed Khan
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
1. Enterprise Architecture Concepts 2. Principles and Patterns FREE CHAPTER 3. Distributed Computing 4. Software Development Life Cycle 5. Enterprise Practices in Software Development 6. Layered Approach to Solution Architecture 7. SOA Implementation with .NET Core 8. Cloud-Based Architecture and Integration with .NET Core 9. Microservices Architecture 10. Security Practices with .NET Core 11. Modern AI Offerings by Microsoft

Understanding OpenID Connect


OpenID Connect is a layer on top of OAuth introduced in 2015. The success of OpenID Connect is that it returns the simple JSON-based identity tokens (JWT) {pronounced as Jawt} signed by the OpenID provider (OP) through OAuth protocol to suit web, mobile, and browser-based applications. In comparison to OAuth, Open ID Connect actually tells about the user's identity information and instead of getting the access details, it tells exactly about the user accessing a resource. Consider the following diagram:

We can relate an Identity token to a driving license that contains driver information such as license number, license expiry, first name, last name, type of vehicle permitted, and so on.

The Identity token is encoded into the base 64 URL-safe string that contains information such as subject (sub), issuing authority (iss), audience (aud), and more. It may also contain some extra information about the user or custom claims in a set of scopes.

When the user is authenticated...

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