OpenID Connect Future

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The advantages that lead to the large acceptance of OpenID Connect are being eroded. The future of the standard depends on how the OpenID responds to these challenges.

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OpenID Connect responded to the poor acceptance of OpenID 2.0 by leveraging the concept of "Front Channel Authentication". The method allows a user on a browser at a Relying Party (RP) to sign into an IdP and grant access to the RP without losing the context of the web site (ie the browser tab) that needs the Authentication.