RFC 9068: A JWT-Based OAuth2 Access Token Format Standard
For anyone who has been paying attention, this blog post has been a long-time coming for multiple reasons. First, this is my first blog post in a couple of years — I’ve been heads down on a couple of projects for awhile now. This is literally the first time I’ve “come up for air” since the last…
OAuth2 Access Tokens vs API Keys — Using JWTs
There are several approaches to securing APIs. Every API Gateway vendor supports the same core set of API security mechanisms. API Keys and OAuth2 are two examples of these authentication (plus authorization) mechanism. When should one be used over the other? What are the differences between the…