Differences between OpenID and OAuth
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What are the differences between OpenID and OAuth?
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Here is the main difference between OpenID and OAuth:
- OpenID is an open standard for authentication - Allows users to be authenticated to a Website using a third-party identify management service.
- OAuth is an open standard for authorization - Providing access delegation, commonly used as a way for Internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords
Here is a diagram that shows how OpenID is used to authenticate a user with Google as an identity provider and OAuth is used to authorize a user to run a Google API, getting user's profile for example:
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