From Basic Auth’s simplicity to OAuth 2.0’s delegated muscle, this quick-read unpacks the strengths, gaps, and best-fit use cases of the four core REST API authentication methods—so you pick security ...

Idempotent RESTful API design. One of the challenges with the development of idempotent RESTful APIs is that there is no mechanism on the server to enforce an operation's safety or idempotence. A ...

In this article, we’ll examine how to implement API key authentication in ASP.NET Core 7. To use the code examples provided below, you should have Visual Studio 2022 installed in your system.

2. Broken authentication. If API programmers do not implement adequate mechanisms to verify the identity of users or clients accessing it, the flaw is known as a broken authentication. Cybercriminals ...

Organizations can do this by applying zero trust principles to API security. Application security teams should empower their endpoints equally to a state of threat prevention across all three – ...

One of the highlights of improved ASP.NET Core functionality in .NET 6 was support of minimal APIs, for which work is still ongoing in the new .NET 7 Preview 3. Minimal APIs are architected to create ...

API client for the Swedish BankID REST API. BankId.Core: Core functionality for the BankID flow. BankId.AspNetCore: ASP.NET authentication module for Swedish BankID. ... The API-wrapper ...

While SOAP-based web services form the backbone of most legacy web service implementations, RESTful APIs have become the de facto standard for cloud-native microservices development. In this ...