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API Authentication
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API Authentication
  • Introduction
  • API Authentication - a (very) brief introduction
    • The variants of API Authentication
    • Basic Authentication
    • API Keys
    • TLS Authentication
    • Token Based Authentication
    • Token Based Authentication and Authorization
    • OpenID Connect vs OAuth
    • History
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • OAuth Actors
    • OAuth Actors
    • OAuth 2.0 Autors
    • Authorization vs Delegation
    • Quiz
  • OAuth 2.0 Interaction patterns
    • OAuth Code Flow
    • Client Credentials
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • Tokens
    • Tokens
    • Formats
      • Bearer
      • PoP Tokens
    • Using an Access Token
    • Using a DPoP Access Token
    • JSON Web Token
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • Scopes and Claims
    • What are scopes?
    • User Consent
    • Example
    • Claims
    • How to identity data to put in the token
    • Scopes and claim hierarcy
    • Putting it together
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • APIs and Gateways
    • Why Gateways
    • Adding OAuth
    • Remember formats?
    • All APIs should depend on JWTs
    • Introspection
    • API to API call
    • API Authorization
    • Summary
    • Quiz
  • Final Assessment
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  1. OAuth Actors

Authorization vs Delegation

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  • OAuth is not Open Authorization

  • OAuth is a Delegation Protocol

  • What's the difference?

Delegation

Authorization