How PKCE Works Part 1

How PKCE works in Identity Server when running as a client

David Klempfner
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readDec 4, 2023

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Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash

This is the first article in a 2 part series. Click here for part 2.

In this article we’ll look at the problems PKCE solves, how it works behind the scenes in Duende Identity Server and particularly at how the code_verifier is associated with the user.
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