OpenID Connect

External

• http://openid.net/connect/
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID_Connect
• http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/01/02/oauth-2-0-and-sign-in-4/

Internal

• Security Concepts
• OAuth 2.0 Concepts

Overview

OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an authentication protocol built as a layer on top of OAuth 2.0 authorization framework. The standard is controlled by the OpenID Foundation. The standard addresses web browser single sing-on (SSO). Other standards such as SAML address the same use case.