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Pratik Dhanave · ·6 min read

OpenID Connect: Authentication on OAuth

Everyone kept using OAuth to log users in, and everyone kept doing it slightly wrong, because OAuth was never designed to answer "who is this user?" OpenID Connect is the fix: a thin, standardized authentication layer on top of OAuth that adds one crucial thing — an ID token that securely tells you who the user is. It's what "Sign in with Google" actually runs on.

Everyone kept using OAuth to log users in, and kept doing it slightly wrong, because OAuth was never designed to answer 'who is this user?' OpenID Connect is the fix: a thin authentication layer on OAuth that adds an ID token. It's what 'Sign in with…' runs on.

#OpenID Connect#Identity#Authentication#Security

All posts on this site are written by Pratik Dhanave, an Agentic AI Architect with 7+ years building production distributed systems, multi-agent AI platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure. About the author → Each article includes working code, architecture diagrams, and references to the specific frameworks and standards discussed. Browse all posts or explore related topics using the tag cloud above.