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Pilcrow's auth book
Pilcrow's collection of guides, recommendations, and examples for implementing auth in web applications.

Protecting web applications via Envoy OAuth2 filter
Putting our long-tenured investment teams on the line to earn the trust of institutional investors.
The OAuth mechanism and its most common flows
Every single time when you want to sign in to an application and you click on “Login with Google”, you are starting a protocol called…

Digital Credentials · Issue #1003 · mozilla/standards-positions
Request for Mozilla Position on an Emerging Web Specification Specification title: Digital Credentials Specification or proposal URL (if available): https://wicg.github.io/digital-identities/ Expla...
OAuth — The Open Standard for Authorization
The open standard for authorization on the web. Find what you need:
What is OAuth?
Wherein I [try to] answer a seemingly straightforward question: "WTF is OAuth, anyhow?"

index.html · by atprotofans.com
An browser-side ATProtocol OAuth application with no dependencies that verifies supporters
Petname Tool: Enabling web site recognition using the existing SSL infrastructure
The existing WWW infrastructure already provides for authentication of web sites. Unfortunately, the advent of phishing has shown that the mainstream user interface to web site authentication is not meaningful to users. This paper proposes a new browser user interface widget, the petname tool, that integrates meaningful authentication information into the browsing workflow.
1Password & Browserbase - Pioneering agentic autofill for credential access
Browserbase is the complete platform to build and deploy agents that browse and interact with the web like humans.

OAuth scopes (#3806) · bluesky-social/atproto@1899b1f
* style: prefix `id` and `uri` with `request` where applicable * Dynamically validate OAuth scopes * Allow configuring trusted OAuth clients * Improve client validation * Rework authorization t...
Content Credentials
Introducing the new standard for content authentication. Content Credentials provide deeper transparency into how content was created or edited.

OAuth API - Home
The Apigee OAuth API gives you a keychain for authenticating to Twitter, Salesforce, Salesforce Chatter, Facebook, Flickr, and Foursquare. Thousands of developers complain about the complexity of using OAuth. Now you can easily authenticate in one consistent way across several APIs and build apps faster.
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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
🦫 alert! We published the second episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring native support for @atproto.com ! Learn more how we improve user agency and privacy at webbeef.org/atproto.html : - Native at:// protocol support. - Log in your PDS and forget OAuth ! - Authorize 3rd parties
there’s a reason why i added this informational box to the sign in flow for @anisota.net — i wanted to make it clearer that the user is redirected away from anisota and to their own account/PDS… and that anisota isn’t getting their password helps that anisota’s design is SO diff from the oauth page
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
I think Bluesky and #atdev community have some education work to do on the OAuth front, because some people seem to feel that OAuth is less secure than app passwords (see questions to Clearsky: why can't you just use app passwords like everyone else, why do I need to give you my real password etc.)