The Sad Story of OAuth 2.0 and Open Standards, IETF (2015)

after spending about 3 hours, do i understand how OAuth or OpenID work? No. But, i got a story, you may have already heard.

• OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell 2012-07-29 By Eran Hammer. At http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/26/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/
• https://gist.github.com/nckroy/dd2d4dfc86f7d13045ad715377b6a48f

• OpenID
• OAuth
• Security Assertion Markup Language

by the way, OpenID was hot in 2009 or so, but is dead.

OpenID was started by Brad Fitzpatrick, in May 2005. (Brad wrote LiveJournal (which was the first suggessful blog platform, circa 2000)).

Brad Fitzpatrick also uses Kinesis keyboard, see his blog and photos at:

https://x.com/bradfitz/status/517432131841044480

https://plus.google.com/+BradFitzpatrick/posts/WUb6tsg5tud

Mar 31, 2012 https://plus.google.com/+BradFitzpatrick/posts/hmKNqH9KJDr

http://brad.livejournal.com/2133298.html

my review at Kinesis Advantage2 Keyboard

he's been with google for many years now. Now and then you can see he does some presentation for Google. And now he works on golang.

https://www.quora.com/What%E2%80%99s-wrong-with-OpenID

OpenID: The Web's Most Successful Failure 2011-01-31 By Scott Gilbertson. At http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/01/openid-the-webs-most-successful-failure/

OAuth is probably also history now.

here's OAuth replacement. https://github.com/hueniverse/oz

programing, unix, web tech, so complex, really is just the result of human society, like politics. huge influx of things at play, counting majorly the ignorance of programers of how things are