Justin Richer

Justin Richer is a security architect, software engineer, standards editor, and service designer with over fifteen years of industry experience. OAuth 2 In Action, with Antonio Sanso, is Justin's first book.

Justin is the editor of OAuth Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591 and 7592), and OAuth Token Introspection (RFC 7662). He wrote the pioneering Vectors of Trust in the IETF and is a co-author of NIST Special Publication 800-63 version 3, with a focus on the federation and assertion requirements. He’s the editor of the HEART specifications, applying identity and security standards to the healthcare vertical. He is the co-author of the User-Managed Access (UMA) 2.0 specification.

Justin is the founder and maintainer of the MITREid Connect open source project through the MIT Internet Trust Consortium. MITREid Connect is one of the leading reference implementations of OAuth 2, OpenID Connect, and UMA.

An ardent proponent of open standards and open source, he believes in solving hard problems with the right solution, even if that solution still needs to be invented.