diff --git a/topics/overview/supported-protocols.adoc b/topics/overview/supported-protocols.adoc index 5487750a00..bcca21aa3d 100644 --- a/topics/overview/supported-protocols.adoc +++ b/topics/overview/supported-protocols.adoc @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ 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