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How OAuth 2 trumps Basic authentication

http://apiux.com/2013/07/10/oauth-2-trumps-basic-authentication

by bpedro • 13 years ago

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frankcaron• 13 years ago

A fair assessment of the basic OAuth 2.0 impl, but I'm left wondering how to as-simply state the value add for developers to implement an OAuth 2 workflow instead of just relying on SSL.

Is the additional overhead to development worth the gain in security for the straightforward "access my own protected resources" use case?

bpedro• 13 years ago

As written in the article, one of the advantages is avoiding things like the man-in-the-middle SSL exploit.

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