How PayPal uses Open Identity

Open Identity How PayPal uses

March 2012, Hannover

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Tim Messerschmidt Developer Evangelist

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Developer Evangelist

Startup Mentor

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•  active users: 123.000.000

•  Uses OpenID Connect

•  Interesting for commercial use cases – Adds integrity to existing applications

– Clearly business- & merchant-oriented

•  Actively being worked on! – Expect new kick-ass features soon

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16 Eran Hammer: http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/

“OAuth 2.0 offers little to none code

reusability”

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“What 2.0 offers is a blueprint for an authorization

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19 Tim Bray: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/07/28/Oauth2-dead

OAuth 2 is

useful today

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“OAuth 2 may not be perfect, and may have been harmed by the Enterprise crap, but the

core of Web functionality […] seems to have survived.”

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•  Highly demanded feature – Service can be used to login & logout

•  OAuth 2.0 requires users to revoke permission to “logout”

•  Token validation & refreshment

•  AN Optional feature

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Endpoint URL

4.  Check callbacks for Authorization Token

5.  Request a valid Access Token

7.  Retrieve user’s resources

S#rv#r 2.  Provide a login page 3.  Return the Authorization

Token after a successful login

6.  Check Authorization Token & return the Access Token if it’s valid

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P#!1*# f!r-#. 1'++w!r2+… “45 % admit to leaving a website instead of re-setting their password or answering security questions” * * B*/# I%$. 2011

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P#!1*# 2!%’. *,3# .! r#-,+.#r… Out of 657 surveyed users 66 % think that social sign-in is a desirable alternative. * * B*/# I%$. 2011

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V#r,4#2 1r!4*#+ Email – as it’s the user’s login

Address – ship my stuff here!

Name – makes sense, too … '%2 (/$& (!r# ,%f!r('.,!%!

5 scopes to access the

profile:

1.  profile

2.  email

3.  address

4.  phone

5.  attributes

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Leverage an existing

profile

x.com/identity

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•  paypal.com/dts – Developer Technical Services

–  Ticketing

•  StackOverflow.com –  Tag “PayPal”

– Actively being watched by Technical Service and Developer Evangelists like me

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