OpenId Connect Terminologies
Learn the fundamental OpenID Connect terminologies such as identity tokens, scopes, claims, and the primary endpoints used for authentication and user information exchange. Understand how tokens encode user data and the validation steps required to secure applications.
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Here is the important terminology of OpenId Connect.
Identity token
While discussing OAuth, we discussed the authorization code and access token. In the case of OpenId Connect, there is one more token that we can request. This token is called the identity token, which encodes the user’s authentication information.
In contrast to access tokens, which are only intended to be understood by the resource server, ID tokens are intended to be understood by the client application. The ID token contains the user information in JSON format. The JSON is wrapped into a ...