45: SSO, Open ID, & Anvil Connect

Identity is the missing link that connects all your users, apps, services, and devices to each other and the rest of the world. Christian Smith (@anvilhacks) is founder of Anvil Research (@AnvilResearch) and the creator of Anvil Connect, an open source authorization server built with Node.js to authenticate your users and protect your APIs.

Anvil Connect simplifies security when you have many apps and services to integrate. It acts as a broker between your apps, APIs, and a long list of OAuth providers like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and GitHub. The server works with apps written in any programming language that speaks HTTP. The code is MIT licensed and implements open standards like OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and JSON Web Tokens.

Resources

• Open ID - http://openid.net/

• Anvil Connect - https://github.com/anvilresearch/connect

• Anvil - http://anvil.io/

• Anvil Gitter Channel - https://gitter.im/christiansmith/anvil-connect

• Open ID Connect - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID_Connect

• Single Sign on - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_sign-on

• OAuth3 - https://oauth3.org

• JWT (JSON Web Token) - http://jwt.io/

• Let’s Encrypt - https://letsencrypt.org

• Web Crypto -  https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/crypto

• Storm Path - https://stormpath.com/

• Auth0 - https://auth0.com/

• Service Worker - http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/

• Ketboot -  https://github.com/substack/keyboot

• scramble.io - https://scramble.io/

• AJ’s article on creating a CSR for Https (tls/ssl) RSA Pems  - https://coolaj86.com/articles/how-to-create-a-csr-for-https-tls-ssl-rsa-pems/

• keybase.io - https://keybase.io/

Panelists

• Erik Isaksen - HTML5 Google Developer Expert & Front End Engineer at Deloitte Digital

• Nick Niemeir - Partner at Good News Everyone

• AJ O’Neal - JavaScript Engineer