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by kyrra 1902 days ago
OAuth is just an identity tool (to say a login is a certain person). Zanzibar can be seen more as a ACL system that you can put across your system. So it is there to validate that a given user is able to access any specific resource.
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OAuth(2) are for access delegation. They are not for authentication or identity. For this reason, OIDC was built on top.