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Is there a technical reason why Microsoft doesn’t use IdentityServer4 with its implementation of the OpenId Connect and Oauth2 technologies. https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer4. They seem to be pushing it quite hard in Visual Studio and it appears to be designed for this very use case (cross domain authentication). Or do even they think it’s too overkill for GitHub ;)

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Because GitHub Pages isn't written in .NET. However, the general implementation is heavily inspired by this and other similar projects.

GitHub Pages doesn't have to be written in .NET to use IdentityServer4 or any other implementation of OpenID Connect and OAuth2 whatever language it may be written in. Anyway, I'm not a fan of OpenID Connect because I personally think that it is overkill for most projects I work on. I was just wondering why Microsoft doesn't use the tech if they are pushing it so hard.

> "the general implementation is heavily inspired by this" Inspired but flawed because they "rolled their own"

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