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OpenID Connect Core 1.0

Official docs outline

10 sections
  1. Overview

    OpenID Connect as an identity layer on top of OAuth 2.0.

  2. Authentication

    Flow choices: authorization code, implicit and hybrid.

  3. Authorization code flow

    Authentication request, token request and ID Token retrieval.

  4. ID Token

    Required claims iss, sub, aud, exp, iat and nonce.

  5. ID Token validation

    Signature, issuer, audience, expiry and nonce checks.

  6. UserInfo endpoint

    Fetching claims about the end-user with an access token.

  7. Scopes and standard claims

    openid, profile, email, address and phone scopes and claim sets.

  8. Authentication request parameters

    prompt, max_age, login_hint, id_token_hint and acr_values.

  9. Refresh tokens and offline access

    offline_access scope and refresh token handling.

  10. Provider discovery metadata

    .well-known/openid-configuration and issuer metadata fields.

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