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Re:Why is OAuth still hard in 2023? by paulddraper on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:41AM (#35729758)
Don't the clients have to do a billion qps as their retrieve access/refresh tokens from their data stores?
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Re:Why is OAuth still hard in 2023? by migf on Friday April 28, 2023 @03:08PM (#35745714)
Yeah, but it's a negligible rounding error of cpu time for each client.

Distributing this work ironically makes it much easier to centralize the authentication.

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