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Or yourself to other services.
Right.
Broadly speaking.
So, you know, everybody logs into everybody.
Well, not everybody has a Gmail account, but everybody logs into services like they enter username and password or, you know, configure like logging with SSO or, you know, logging with Facebook or whatever.
These are all authentication flows.
Something has to know who you are and be able to assert that to other things that people trust.
That's basically the job of an IDP.
Kind of.
So, so just to be clear, like we're like, you still need an external identity provider when you're using tail scale.
And specifically if you use TSIDP, like it, it leverages the fact that you've got an external thing that you trust, right?
Because that's what generates the identity, and that's what we use for the encryption key so you can figure out, oh, this thing is connecting to me.
I know who it is.
And so however you're using Tailscale right now, you've got to, you know, when you create that tailnet, you're plugging it into whatever identity provider is out there that you currently use.
What I think is really magic about TS-IDP is that it lets you not only manage identity sort of privately and internally, so you can bring OIDC to all of your internal apps.
You don't need to configure them to go external.
It lets you start thinking about your network as more of an extension of your identity, not just individual devices.
And so you can actually start treating like a tail net as a collection of identities or perhaps just one identity.
And so it lets you, I guess, have a pocket of identity that's privately your own that you can start to do and manipulate and share things in the world with.