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Re:OAuth Has Ruined Everything by andersriutta on Thursday October 22, 2015 @09:38PM (#10436323)
OpenID Connect [0] is "an interoperable authentication protocol based on the OAuth 2.0 family of specifications." Note this is a different protocol from OpenID 2.0.

[0] http://openid.net/connect/faq/

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Re:OAuth Has Ruined Everything by dvanduzer on Thursday October 22, 2015 @10:05PM (#10436416)
Yes, OpenID Connect is a protocol that builds on the authentication features developed from previous versions of OpenID, and merges it with the authorization features defined via OAuth.

It is all laid out fairly clearly in this comment on the original blog post, for example: http://developer.telerik.com/featured/oauth-has-ruined-every...

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