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How Scalability Planning Results Markedly Improves APIs
API University

Developers can often miss an important aspect of API development - scaling the API. To scale the API, you must look into offloading the administrative functions of multiple APIs in their apps. Scaling of the API at the design phase is crucial to the success of API adoption in the long run.

Analysis

Atoosa Rezai

API Design, API Strategy, Authentication

09-07-2018

How Web Authentication May Change the Future of Passwords
API University Duo Verify

Recent investigations show how users can be authenticated via web without using passwords. It’s called WebAuthn or Web Authentication that uses a Web API in a browser. Clients can be verified with their phones, hardware keys, or trusted devices. In his article, Nick Steele explains the new standards

How-To

Mayela Gonzalez

Authentication, Passwords, Verification

07-19-2018

Google Plays Up Android P's BiometricPrompt API

Google is promoting the fact that beginning in Android P, developers have access to a BiometricPrompt API that allows them to integrate biometric authentication into their apps. The BiometricPrompt API only exposes strong biometric modalities, which are those that are less easily bypassed.

Brief

Patricio Robles

Authentication, Application Development, Security

06-25-2018

The W3C's WebAuthn Standard Could Do Away With Website Passwords

The W3C has announced a new web authentication standard that provides an API for accessing public key credentials. The standard, which is being referred to as WebAuthn, would allow users to log into websites without having to use passwords and instead use authorization gestures on their phones.

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Patricio Robles

Authentication, Privacy, Security

04-11-2018

ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Security and Privacy
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This article is part of a multi-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. Security and Privacy APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.

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Joy Culbertson

Security, Authentication, Authorization

01-01-2018

ProgrammableWeb's Most Interesting APIs in 2017: Application Development and DevOps
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This article is part of a multi-part series about interesting APIs that were added to our directory during 2017. App Development Tools and DevOps APIs are covered in this segment. The APIs were chosen by our researchers, by popularity according to website traffic, and by mentions on social media.

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Joy Culbertson

Application Development, Authentication, DevOps

12-23-2017

Dashlane and Google's OpenYOLO Password Manager Reaches Beta

Dashlane and Google have (finally!) brought their OpenYOLO password manager to Android. The basic idea is to improve app adoption by smoothing over the login process. Developers can grab the code from GitHub and integrate the You Only Login Once tool with their mobile apps.

News

Eric Zeman

Authentication, Mobile

10-30-2017

Recent API Security Incidents Show Perils of Ignoring Best Practices

Despite the fact that the costs associated with hacking and data breaches have arguably never been higher, recent API-related security incidents involving large companies, T-Mobile and Accenture, highlight the fact that basic API security best practices are still often not being adhered to.

Analysis

Patricio Robles

Security, Authentication

10-17-2017

How to Do GitHub API Authentication Using OAuth 2.0
API University GitHub

OAuth Newbies can find it tricky initially. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to get started with OAuth 2.0 while avoiding all the fiddly parts around handling tokens. The folks over at Insomnia will show you how to authenticate an API client for the GitHub API with OAuth 2.0 and the Insomnia app.

How-To

Seamus Holland

OAuth, Authentication

09-24-2017

APIMatic SDKs Now Support OAuth 2.0

APIMatic, SDK generator, announced that its SDKs now support OAuth 2.0. Prior to this announcement, there was minimal support for OAuth 2.0 only for authentication token headers within requests. Now, the company is moving forward with full support and continued development.

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Eric Carter

SDK, Authentication

07-25-2017

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How Scalability Planning Results Markedly Improves APIs
API University

How Web Authentication May Change the Future of Passwords
API University Duo Verify

Google Plays Up Android P's BiometricPrompt API

The W3C's WebAuthn Standard Could Do Away With Website Passwords

Dashlane and Google's OpenYOLO Password Manager Reaches Beta

Recent API Security Incidents Show Perils of Ignoring Best Practices

How to Do GitHub API Authentication Using OAuth 2.0
API University GitHub

APIMatic SDKs Now Support OAuth 2.0