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link:http://openid.net/connect/[Open ID Connect] (OIDC) is an authentication protocol that is an extension of link:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749[OAuth 2.0].
While OAuth 2.0 is only a framework for building authorization protocols and is mainly incomplete, OIDC is a full-fledged authentication and authorization
protocol. OIDC also makes heavy use of the link:https://jwt.io[Json Web Token] (JWT) set of standards. These standards define a
protocol. OIDC also makes heavy use of the link:https://jwt.io[Json Web Token] (JWT) set of standards. These standards define an
identity token JSON format and ways to digitally sign and encrypt that data in a compact and web-friendly way.
There is really two types of use cases when using OIDC. The first is an application that asks the {{book.project.name}} server to authenticate