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🔐How User Authentication Work?

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🔐How User Authentication Work?

Authentication of user accounts for web and app access. Identity is required for web access to your apps and data: only you should be able to see your stuff!

Wajid Khan
May 10, 2023
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Apps use “Authentication” to verify that you are who you say you are: it can be as simple as a password or as complex as biometrics (e.g. fingerprint or facial recognition).

Identity is required for web access to your apps and data: only you should be able to see your stuff!

The most common method of authentication is username and password, but schemes such as single-sign-on, OAuth, SMS Pin and Password-less Authentication with Magic Links and SMS OTP code are becoming more popular.

📟 SMS OTPs are also used for Two-factor authentication (2FA) security system that requires two or more pieces of evidence.

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Authentication on the backend can be accomplished through the use of cookies, session tokens, JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), and/or other complicated cryptography combinations.

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