Authorization is not orthogonal to Authentication.

[Rick-Anderson]

Description

rewrite as:

Authorization is separate and distinct from authentication. However, authorization relies on an authentication mechanism. Authentication is the process of verifying a user's identity, which may result in the creation of one or more identities for the user.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authorization/introduction?view=aspnetcore-8.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/blob/main/aspnetcore/security/authorization/introduction.md

Document ID

84241d82-3261-1225-d1f9-a94d38f6155b

Article author

@Rick-Anderson

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