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Comment by mgaunard

As a non-web person, I find everything related to this auth business needlessly complicated and arbitrarily limited. Most of the time it's not even implemented correctly anyway (many application not checking the JWT audience...) because web devs just use libraries without understand what actually provides the security.

As an application writer, I want the user to feed me a token signed by a trusted entity that proves he is who he claims he is and has the necessary accesses enabled for my application.

Whether this happens transparently via a redirect to the trusted entity login webpage and back to my app or whether I request the user to go to a specific url on their own while I wait for them to do so is just an UX detail. Why every approach needs to be labeled a "flow", authorized separately, and come with their own limitations is beyond me.

parent mgaunard 1 year ago

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