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Why OAuth?

Open mmathys opened this issue 8 years ago • 2 comments

Why would one use OAuth for a desktop app? You have nowhere to hide the client secret so in the end everyone can access your users.

Do I get something wrong here?

mmathys avatar Sep 14 '16 18:09 mmathys

It seems that Google recommends some workflows to make it work: https://github.com/googlesamples/oauth-apps-for-windows/tree/master/OAuthDesktopApp

sabbaticaldev avatar Oct 04 '16 04:10 sabbaticaldev

OAuth2 cleate a private unique token per user on device, this token could be detached from the account without change your password and prevent save password on app

saidmoya12 avatar Nov 09 '16 19:11 saidmoya12