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Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it says it is. Authentication technology provides access control for systems by checking to see if a user's credentials match the credentials in a database of authorized users or in a data authentication server.

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TakshakRamteke
TakshakRamteke commented Jul 26, 2022

What is the improvement or update you wish to see?

I recently noticed this while working with the auth0 provider that

Only the docs for google provider tell us about what callback / allowed redirect to use

while it is something pretty simple and is mentioned pretty early in the docs

In my humble opinion I believe that it'd be so much more usefull and convenient if we could list

documentation good first issue
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mccutchen
mccutchen commented May 1, 2019

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

The public key-based request signing functionality added to sso_proxy in buzzfeed/sso#106 is undocumented. In particular, it's not immediately obvious how to a) generate an appropriate keypair or b) validate a signed request in an upstream service.

Describe the solution you'd like

New documenta

good first issue docs
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