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a native mobile app where users need to authenticate, you can improve security by adding federated authentication to your app. |
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If you will implement federated authentication you should use OAuth as an identity layer. OAuth is directly related to OpenID Connect (OIDC) since OIDC is an authentication layer built on top of OAuth 2.0. Using this will allow your client to verify the identity of the end-user based on the authentication performed by an authorization server, as well as to obtain basic profile information about the end-user |
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in the form of claims. Read on to learn more about adding federated authentication in your app. Best practices of apps and user authenticationHow to setup your user authentication in apps is well documented. |
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about good app authentication. How adding federated authentication improves securityOffering your customers federated authentication the right way means end-users visually only hand off their password to their home organizations, and see their familiar organization login page. Opposed to this are app-developers offering their own in app login page: by doing that, users get more vulnerable to phishing attacks, since they get used to inputting their passwords in all kinds of apps. App-developers offering ‘the right’ way of federated authentication can use this in their sales pitch to new customers! Ways of adding federated authentication in your appYou have a couple of options to do great authentication in your app |
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But my own in app login page looks far better!One of the most heard objectives to ‘doing login right’ is that the user-flow or user-experience is worse than when you just offer input fields for a user id and a password. This might be true but |
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the disadvantages don't outweigh that advantages. Please understand that companies like Google, Facebook and the Internet Engineering Task Force |
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recommend 'their way' simply because this helps keeping the end user secure which is of the utmost importance. |
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We blogged about our SURF software development kits to have federated login to native applications (the right way)
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