Beginner’s Guide to OAuth – Part I: Overview. The OAuth 1.0 Guide. OAuth Core 1.0 (also known as RFC 5849), the community-based specification published on December 4th, 2007, revised June 24th, 2009, and finalized in April 2010 is one of the fastest growing Open Web specifications.
It provides a much needed solution for security web APIs without requiring users to share their usernames and passwords. This guide attempts to explain OAuth by taking a look at its history, architecture, and technical details. It is written primarily for developers looking to implement services offering secure APIs or developers implementing clients using OAuth-protected services. The OAuth specification has gone through a few complete rewrites. New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms - Smashing Magazine.
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These are elements in what is loosely called a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). What are colloquially known as SSL certificates should be referred to as X.509 certificates. The term SSL certificate became common due to the adoption of the X.509 (one of the ITU X.500 Directory standards) certificate format by Netscape when it designed the original versions of the SSL protocol, eons ago, when the world was still young and the Internet was a friendly place. The term 'SSL certificate' has persisted simply because given the choice of saying SSL certificate or 'X.509 certificate' which would you choose?
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And where better to turn for a sense of where we stand today than the Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID). Analysis of WHID reveals that in 2009 social networks were at the greatest risk, malware and defacement remained the most common outcome of Web attacks, and SQL injection was the most common attack vector. Here’s a deeper dive on the findings and what you can do about them.
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