Deriving authentication concepts from first principles

In one the earlier talks we digged deep into the principles of KYC and touched upon a related topic Authentication (AuthN) briefly. This month we'll solely focus on AuthN and get to it's principles, analysing it from a technology perspective.

Useful for Product Managers and Programmers working in Fintech. This should help you build slick customer onboarding journeys.

Agenda
1.⁠ ⁠Deriving authentication concepts from first principles - Vedant Bhutani (60m)
2.⁠ ⁠Networking (30m)

The talk
Authentication is a fundamental backbone of our civilisation. In this talk we will do multiple thought experiments to derive the concepts like JWT, OAuth2, Kerberos from the first principle thinking. After the talk you will be able to understand why and how the world arrived at those methods.

Speaker
Vedant Bhutani - SDE 2 at Postman | IIT Gn - Speaker is a professional tech enthusiast and amateur guitarist