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title: "Overview"
description: "Learn how to authenticate users with Auth0 via the walt.id wallet API."
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# Overview

Overview
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Auth0 is a flexible, drop-in solution that provides authentication and authorization services for your applications. It
helps your team and organization avoid the cost, time, and risk associated with building your own solution to
authenticate and authorize users.

Key Features of Auth0
---------------------

- **User Authentication**: Auth0 provides a secure and reliable way for users to log in to your applications. It
  supports various methods of authentication, including username/password and social account logins.
- **Authorization**: Auth0 allows you to define fine-grained access control for your applications and APIs.
- **User Management**: Auth0 provides a user management dashboard where you can manage user profiles, password resets,
  blocking and deleting users.

Getting Started with Auth0
--------------------------

To get started with Auth0, you need to create an account and tenant. Once you have an account, you can start defining
how Auth0 works with your applications and APIs. You can also control who can access your Auth0 Dashboard.

For more detailed information, you can refer to the following resources:

- [Auth0 Overview](https://auth0.com/docs/get-started/auth0-overview)
- [Get Started - Auth0 Docs](https://dev.auth0.com/docs/get-started)
- [Introduction to Auth0 Fundamentals | Okta](https://www.okta.com/training/introduction-to-auth0-fundamentals)
- [Get Started - Auth0](https://auth0.com/docs/get-started)

Auth0 Integration with the Wallet API
-------------------------------------

The Wallet API supports Auth0 as an OIDC provider. You can use Auth0 to authenticate users and manage their sessions in
the wallet application.

For more information on how to integrate Auth0 with the Wallet API, refer to the following resources:

- [Auth0 Configuration](https://docs.walt.id/community-stack/wallet/authentication/jwt-oidc/auth0/configuration.md) : Auth0 documentation on integrating Auth0 with the
  Wallet API.