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 dex is a federated identity management service.
 It provides OpenID Connect (OIDC) to users, while it proxies to multiple remote identity providers (IdP) to drive actual authentication.
+We named the project 'dex' beceause it is a central index of users that other pieces of software can authenticate against.
 
 ## Architecture