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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Why OAuth it self is not an authentication framework ?

Justin Richer <jricher@mitre.org> Tue, 05 February 2013 20:42 UTC

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Another very good writeup of this was published recently as well:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vbertocci/archive/2013/01/02/oauth-2-0-and-sign-in.aspx

This confusion seems to be a major sticking point among developers.

  -- Justin

On 02/05/2013 02:52 PM, Prabath Siriwardena wrote:
> FYI and for your comments..
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> http://blog.facilelogin.com/2013/02/why-oauth-it-self-is-not-authentication.html
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