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> Authentication is hard. No, it’s not. It’s certainly not harder or more complicated than the OAuth protocol used support Google-based sign-in. Exactly what
by catiopatio 4y ago
> Authentication is hard.
No, it’s not.
It’s certainly not harder or more complicated than the OAuth protocol used support Google-based sign-in.
Exactly what unique value do you believe these big companies bring, exactly?
- rattlesnakedave 4y agoIt actually is very hard. There’s a long tail of concerns that make it difficult to do authentication as well as a major player in the space.
- catiopatio 4y agoWhat exactly about it is hard?
- ajross 4y agoThe part where you guarantee to your users that the person you authenticated is who they seem to be. In this particular example: "Is this invoice I'm about to pay for the service I purchased, or is it fraud?" Farming that responsibility off to Google or Facebook and letting them handle the edge cases (for free, I might add) has genuine security value.