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Requesting my keys on developer.eBay, I see a message that invites me to enable OAuth. But the message also speaks about Auth'n'auth.
Searching for it on Google doesn't give me any information about what this is, so I'm asking here.
The complete message given to me by eBay is:
To use eBay's latest security features, add OAuth security to your keys. These keys will support both Auth'n'auth and OAuth.
For keys with multiple redirect URLs go to the Tokens page and enable one redirect URL for OAuth only. All redirect URLs will continue to support Auth'n'auth.
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Authn is short for authentication, and authz is short for authorization. These are two separate but closely intertwined concepts in the world of identity and access management (IAM).
OAuth is not authentication. It's an authorization protocol, or, better yet, a delegation protocol. It's for this reason that identity protocols such as OpenID Connect exist and legacy protocols such as SAML use extension grants to link authentication and delegation.
The authorization service ensures that the user is authorized to have access to a particular resource. Authorization can be done through role-based access control (RBAC) or list-based access control (LBAC).
To get an Application access token: Navigate to your Application Keys page on the eBay Developer Portal. Next to the App ID listing of the environment you want to generate a token for, click the User Tokens link.
This is an old post, and I also wondered as to what this meant. It is apparently just eBay jargon for Authentication and Authorization or as eBay refers to it - Auth'n'Auth.
They have an eBay developer technical support article about this here - https://ebaydts.com/eBayKBDetails?KBid=1198
That article even shows an example usage:
<INPUT TYPE=\"submit\" NAME=AUTHORIZE VALUE=\"Launch Auth & Auth\" "
. "onclick=\"window.open('https://signin.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SignIn&runame=$runame&SessID=$sessid');\">\n"
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