What is the current standard for authenticating Http requests (REST, Xml over Http)?
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The standard should solve the following Authentication challenges like-
Replay attacks Man in the Middle Plaintext attacks Dictionary attacks Brute force attacks Spoofing by counterfeit servers
I have already looked at Amazon Web Services and that is one possibility. More importantly there seems to be two most common approaches:
- Use apiKey which is encoded in a similar fashion like AWS but is a post parameter to a request
- Use Http AuthenticationHeader and use a similar signature like AWS.
Signature is typically obtained by signing a date stamp with an encrypted shared secret. This signature is therefore passed either as an apiKey or in the Http AuthenticationHeader.
I would like to know weigh both the options from the community, who may have used one or more and would also like to explore other options that I am not considering. I would also use HTTPS to secure my services.
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