eKYC & Identity Assurance Interop Event Update
The eKYC and Identity Assurance (eKYC & IDA) working group is developing extensions to OpenID Connect that standardize the communication of assured identity information, i.e., verified claims along with trust framework and assurance level as well as information about how and when the verification was done. The core of that work has become OpenID Connect […]
OpenID Connect Federation Specification Resulting from a Year of Implementation Experience
The OpenID Foundation held three interop events for implementations of the OpenID Connect Federation specification during 2020. The learnings from each were used to iteratively refine the specification after each round, just as we did when developing OpenID Connect itself. The current specification is the result of the iterative rounds of improvement, informed by the […]
OpenID Connect Federation Draft Incorporating Feedback from First Interop Event
The OpenID Connect Federation specification has been updated to incorporate feedback from developers participating in the first OpenID Connect Federation interop event, which was held online in June 2020. The primary change is to use either signed request objects (JAR) or pushed authorization requests (PAR) for client authentication of automatic registration requests. The new draft […]
Growing list of OpenID Connect libraries available
The list of publicly available OpenID Connect libraries is growing, with implementations available for numerous development platforms and environments, including Drupal, Java, PHP, Python, and Ruby. See the Libraries page for a list of OpenID Connect libraries, as well as libraries implementing the related JSON Web Token (JWT) and JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) […]
OpenID Connect Specs Incorporating Developer Feedback
Since we posted in July about the availability of preliminary OpenID Connect specifications, developers have been building implementations and submitting feedback on the specs. The specs have been revised to incorporate their feedback. A new map of the specs is as follows: The biggest difference you’ll notice is that there is now only one spec to implement for “Minimal” […]