Browser Identity Interactions
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Full Title or Meme
The full range of Browser Identity Interactions from the initial identity creation to large scale federation interactions.
Context
- The OpenID Connect protocol was the first major successful method to create Single Sign On functionality in commonly available browsers.
- This protocol worked its magic by a method now known as front-channel even though that term does not appear in the OpenID Connect spec.
- Front channel communications relies on communications from the IdP to the RP to flow through the user's browser, rather than the back channel flow directly between the Idp and RP.
- The password manager (PM) is a pluggable feature in the browser. Generally the HTTP hooks are standardized, but the manager itself does not appear to be.
- The PM can recognize when a user has been at a site before and that the site is asking for a user name and password.
