From the course: Introduction to APIs in Telecommunications
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OAuth 2.0: Secure access explained
From the course: Introduction to APIs in Telecommunications
OAuth 2.0: Secure access explained
(bright music) - [Instructor] Let's talk about the OAuth which is providing the secure access through the APIs. Let's imagine you are going to a concert, you get a VIP pass, but you will have access only maybe to the lounge, not to the whole venue. That's exactly how OAuth works. It gives access only temporarily and to the specific resources. Let's say a calendar app wants to see your events on your phone. With OAuth, it can only access to the calendar and not to your emails or to your contacts. So, this means it has a limited access only to the calendar in this case. So, app gets what it needs and nothing extra. You are not sharing your password. You never give the app your password. And that's what we want. We want to have secure connections where OAuth handles it by using secure tokens. Kind of like a wallet ticket. The app gets the ticket, but not the keys. You are always in control. You get to approve…
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