OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0

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.

Related videos

• OpenID Connect (video)
• OAuth 2.0 (video)