OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

Widely-accepted authentication and authorization standards that server as the foundation for Hosted Login, Identity Cloud's recommended solution for managing user logins and registrations..


OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0

  • An introduction to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
    The authentication and authorization standards that underlie Hosted Login.

  • Discovery document
    How you and, perhaps more important, your OpenID Connect clients can determine what Hosted Login supports.

  • Token reference
    A detailed look at the access, refresh, and identity tokens used in Hosted Login.

  • Scopes and claims
    Scopes and claims enable you to retrieve user profile information following a successful login.

  • JSON web keys
    The cryptographic mechanism used to verify signature on Hosted Login identity tokens.

  • Convert Unix epoch time
    Unix epoch time (which measures the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on January 1, 1970) is commonly used in OAuth and OpenID Connect.


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