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Merge pull request #108 from coreos/bobbyrullo-patch-1

Update README.md
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dex is a federated identity management service. It provides OpenID Connect (OIDC) to users, and can proxy to multiple remote identity providers (IdP) to drive actual authentication, as well as managing local username/password credentials.
We named the project 'dex' beceause it is a central index of users that other pieces of software can authenticate against.
We named the project 'dex' because it is a central index of users that other pieces of software can authenticate against.
## Architecture
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- host a user-facing API that drives the OIDC protocol
- proxy to remote identity providers via "connectors"
- provides an API for administrators to manage users.
- **dex-overlord** is an auxiliary process responsible for two things:
- **dex-overlord** is an auxiliary process responsible for various administrative tasks:
- rotation of keys used by the workers to sign identity tokens
- garbage collection of stale data in the database
- provides an API for bootstrapping the system.
- **dexctl** is CLI tool used to manage an dex deployment
- **dexctl** is a CLI tool used to manage a dex deployment
- configure identity provider connectors
- administer OIDC client identities
- **database**; a database is used to for persistent storage for keys, users,
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