OpenID Connect Core 1.0
Official docs outline
10 sections- Overview
OpenID Connect as an identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0.
- Authentication
Flow choices: authorization code, implicit and hybrid.
- Authorization code flow
Authentication request, token request and ID Token retrieval.
- ID Token
Required claims iss, sub, aud, exp, iat and nonce.
- ID Token validation
Signature, issuer, audience, expiry and nonce checks.
- UserInfo endpoint
Fetching claims about the end-user with an access token.
- Scopes and standard claims
openid, profile, email, address and phone scopes and claim sets.
- Authentication request parameters
prompt, max_age, login_hint, id_token_hint and acr_values.
- Refresh tokens and offline access
offline_access scope and refresh token handling.
- Provider discovery metadata
.well-known/openid-configuration and issuer metadata fields.
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- OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant (RFC 8628)
- OAuth 2.0 Security Best Current Practice (RFC 9700)
- OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (RFC 8693)
- OAuth 2.1 (IETF draft)
- Passkeys
- PKCE (RFC 7636)
- SAML 2.0
- SCIM 2.0 (RFC 7643 and 7644)
- TOTP and HOTP (RFC 6238 and 4226)
- WebAuthn (W3C Web Authentication Level 3)