What's the difference between OpenID and OAuth?

Question

I\'m really trying to understand the difference between OpenID and OAuth? Maybe they\'re two totally separate things?

Answer 1

I believe it makes sense revisit this question as also pointed out in the comments, the introduction of OpenID Connect may have brought more confusion.

OpenID Connect is an authentication protocol like OpenID 1.0/2.0 but it is actually built on top of OAuth 2.0, so you'll get authorization features along with authentication features. The difference between the two is pretty well explained in detail in this (relatively recent, but important) article: http://oauth.net/articles/authentication/