http://xahlee.info/comp/oauth2_bad.html Hacker Cult [INS::INS] The Sad Story of OAuth 2.0 and Open Standards, IETF By Xah Lee. Date: 2015-07-30. Last updated: 2016-03-22. after spending about 3 hours, do i understand how OAuth or OpenID work? No. But, i got a story, you may have already heard. RealtimeConf - "OAuth 2.0 - Looking Back and Moving On" by Eran Hammer [OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell 2012-07-29 By Eran Hammer. At http:// hueniverse.com/2012/07/26/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/ , accessed on 2016-03-04 ] * [ OpenID ] [ 2016-03-04 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID ] * [ OAuth ] [ 2016-03-04 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth ] * [ Security Assertion Markup Language ] [ 2016-03-04 https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Assertion_Markup_Language ] by the way, OpenID was hot in 2009 or so, but is dead. OpenID was started by Brad Fitzpatrick, in May 2005. (Brad wrote LiveJournal (which was the first suggessful blog platform, circa 2000)). Brad Fitzpatrick also uses Kinesis keyboard, see his blog and photos at: [ twitter bradfitz ] [ 2016-03-04 https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status /517432131841044480 ] [S:https://plus.google.com/+BradFitzpatrick/posts/WUb6tsg5tud:S] Mar 31, 2012 [S:https://plus.google.com/+BradFitzpatrick/posts/ hmKNqH9KJDr:S] http://brad.livejournal.com/2133298.html my review at Kinesis Advantage2 Keyboard he's been with google for many years now. Now and then you can see he does some presentation for Google. And now he works on golang. https://www.quora.com/What%E2%80%99s-wrong-with-OpenID [OpenID: The Web's Most Successful Failure 2011-01-31 By Scott Gilbertson. At http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/01/ openid-the-webs-most-successful-failure/ , accessed on 2016-03-04 ] OAuth is probably also history now. here's OAuth replacement. [2016-03-04 https://github.com/hueniverse/ oz ] programing, unix, web tech, so complex, really is just the result of human society, like politics. huge influx of things at play, counting majorly the ignorance of programers of how things are [?]XAH (c) 1995, 2023 Xah Lee.