OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Flow is a common pattern used in microservices architecture for a federated identity model which nicely decouples the authentication domain from the business domain.
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JWT – Token Based Authentication
In my earlier post on Cryptography, we looked at some of the cryptographic techniques and cryptographic functions that are commonly used to secure the data. In this post, we'll discuss JSON Web Token (JWT) which is one of the most commonly used token based authentication. It has become quite popular since it allows the distributed systems to … Continue reading JWT – Token Based Authentication