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OAuth

OAuth (sometimes incorrectly extended to open authorization) is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for internet users to grant websites or applications access to their information on other websites but without giving them the passwords. This mechanism is used by companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, and…

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Latest version
2.0
Organization
Internet Engineering Task Force

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OAuth and other standards

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OAuth

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples99
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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OAuth

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related to history · 26
OAuth → API, April, Blaine Cook, Chris Messina, Cook, Dashboard, David Recordon, DeWitt Clinton, Eran Hammer, Google, In July, Larry Halff, Ma, Mac OS, Magnolia, Magnolia APIs, Meanwhile, November, OAuth Core, October
related to Uses · 12
OAuth → Access, APIs, Azure Active Directory, Facebook's Graph API, For, Google, Google Reader, Google Site, Instead, Microsoft, RSS, RSS/Atom
related to Criticisms and resignations · 11
OAuth → David Recordon, Dick Hardt, Eran Hammer, Hammer, He, IETF, In, July, Numerous, October, What
related to OAuth 2.0 · 9
OAuth → Among, AS Mix-Up Attack, Assuming, Covert Redirect, In January, Internet Engineering Task Force, Open Redirector, This, Wang Jing
related to External links · 6
OAuth → Authorization Framework, Dick, Hardt, Internet Engineering Task Force, October, The OAuth
related to OAuth 1.0 · 6
OAuth → April, It, OAuth Core, On, Section, Version
related to OAuth and other standards · 6
OAuth → However, OATH, OIDC, OpenID, OpenID Connect, XACML
related to Types · 4
OAuth → Authorization CodePKCEClient CredentialsDevice CodeRefresh, ROPC, Some, TokenResource Owner Password Credentials
related to OAuth and XACML · 3
OAuth → An, It, XACML
related to OpenID vis-à-vis pseudo-authentication using OAuth · 3
OAuth → OpenID, The, Using OAuth

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access authorization protocol xacml google use resource openid authentication token used server security application apis using internet twitter user identity

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
OAuthLatest version2.01.00infobox
OAuthOrganizationInternet Engineering Task Force1.00infobox
OAuthWebsiteIETF OAuth Datatracker1.00infobox
Amazoninstance ofThis mechanism is used by companies0.80text
Googleinstance ofThis mechanism is used by companies0.80text
Meta Platformsinstance ofThis mechanism is used by companies0.80text
Microsoftinstance ofThis mechanism is used by companies0.80text
and Twitter to permit users to share information about their accounts with third-party applications or websites.Generallyinstance ofThis mechanism is used by companies0.80text
the OAuth protocol provides a way for resource owners to provide a client application with secure delegated access to server resourcesinstance ofThis mechanism is used by companies0.80text
the LibreOffice OAuth2OOo extension allows access to remote resourcesinstance ofthree-legged OAuth would have been used to authorize that RSS client to access the feed from the Google Site.Free software client implementations of the OAuth2 protocol0.80text
OAuthrelated to Criticisms and resignationsEran Hammer0.60section
OAuthrelated to Criticisms and resignationsIETF0.60section

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