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API Authentication
Online Courses
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

Quiz

Question 1

What was the main problem that led to the inception of OAuth

Solution

Companies wanted to expose APIs that used authentication but didn't want 3rd parties to see the user's credentials

Question 2

The Actors of OAuth 2.0 are

Solution

The client, the resource server, the authorization server and the resource owner

Question 3

Who delegates to who in OAuth

Solution

The authorization server delegates to the client

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