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Many Web 2.0 services offer Web 2.0 APIs for developers to use. In this article, I review one of the security mechanisms that's often included in such Web 2.0 APIs - the use of API keys - and some of the deployment issues associated with their use.
Many Internet security mechanisms depend on the use of cryptographic algorithms for various forms of authentication and confidentiality. Even when well-known and standardized cryptographic algorithms are used in well-known protocols, some parameters must be specified, the most important of which are usually algorithm identifiers and key or hash-output lengths. The author reviews some recent key length...
Set the date range to filter the displayed results. You can set a starting date, ending date or both. You can enter the dates manually or choose them from the calendar.