Welcome back dear readers! You’ll remember last time we talked about the basic concepts of handling authentication and authorization. Today we’ll...
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Thank you for the great series, Greg.
I have a question regarding "Something you do".
So is the "do" part associated with "use" in "you might use those things to authenticate with the third party"?
I am still unable to grasp how OAuth is something you "do" not what you "are".
That's probably a bit less clear than I intended. Essentially I feel that OAuth is something you do because the thing you do is authenticate with some trusted third party. It's not enough that you're just a user of that third party, you have to actually authenticate with them to prove that you are who you say you are.
Ah, I see. Thank you for the clarification there 👊
So you have to "do" some actual work to prove that you are who you say you are.
Right and you're doing it in a third party's application which is where the distinction comes from IMO
love the analogies definitely brings it closer to home. thank you.