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OpenID Connect

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OpenID Connect was ratified as a standard by its membership on February 26, 2014. OpenID Connect provides a lightweight framework for identity interactions in a RESTful manner. It was developed under the OpenID Foundation and has its roots in OpenID, but OAuth 2.0 affected it tremendously.

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Siriwardena, P. (2014). OpenID Connect. In: Advanced API Security. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6817-8_12

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