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JS frontend for RESTful backend vs authorization

I'm building web-app. And i have concern about security issues. In world a lot of similar questions, but many of them does not have really clear answer(advise,suggestion). This is the reason why i ...
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Verify if person belongs to the claimed university through his university email id

I need to allow users access to an application after verifying that they belong to the claimed institute through university email id. So that if a person claims that he belongs to Stanford University, ...
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Pitfalls of using OAuth for mobile Applications

OAuth seems to be getting a lot of traction at the moment as an authorization solution for web applications and mobile applications. I'm interested in understanding what the pitfalls of using OAuth ...