OAuth: what you need to know
OAuth is an authentication and authorisation protocol, originally developed for web applications, born inside Twitter in 2006. It enables third-party software to do something on your behalf, for a limited time and without giving that software full, permanent access to reserved information. The most common analogy is valet keys. Let's delve a little deeper and find out more about OAuth. Q: So, valet keys. You mean those keys normally handed to...