SAML2 vs JWT: Understanding OpenID Connect Part 1
This post builds upon what we learned about OAuth2 and JWT in previous posts. OpenID Connect will give us the final building block for the JWT-related use cases that this series will explore. The goal of this blog post is to provide a deep understanding of the OpenID Connect spec without having to…
SAML2 vs JWT: Understanding OAuth2
This blog post continues the SAML2 vs JWT series. In the last post, we discussed JSON Web Tokens. Now, we are going to move on to OAuth2 and OpenID Connect, which provides some structure and protocol around the use of JWT. These protocols are used, along with JWT, to build the JWT use cases this…
SAML2 vs JWT: Understanding JSON Web Token (JWT)
In this post, we begin our exploration of the JSON Web Token (JWT) specification as part of the SAML v2.0 vs JWT Series. To understand JWT use cases, we must also look at OpenID Connect v1.0, OAuth v2.0, and and a few related specifications — the JWT spec by itself is not very interesting or…