flownative/openidconnect-client

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OpenID Connect Client for Flow Framework

This Flow package provides an OpenID Connect (OIDC) client SDK. OpenID Connect is an authentication layer built on top of OAuth 2.0. While OAuth is intended to be used for authorization, OpenID Connect is responsible for authentication – that is, verifying the identity of a human or machine user, commonly called "entity".

OIDC provides profile information about an authenticated user through an identity token, which is encoded as a secure JSON Web Token (JWT). JWTs are easy to handle in client- and server-side applications. The data contained in the ID token is usually signed and can optionally …
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