In this article I would present a discussion on implementing HTTP authentication in Web API with code examples to illustrate the concepts discussed.

With the Firefox 60 release on May 9, Firefox became the first major browser to support the Web Authentication API. This API enables users to avoid text-based passwords for websites and instead ...

A look at the recently released YubiKey 5 hardware authenticator series and how web authentication with the new WebAuthn API leverages devices like the YubiKey for painless website registration and ...

George who has developed against myraid web service API’s, observes that each one requires a different authentication mechanism.

How to implement basic password authentication for a minimal API in ASP.NET Core using a custom authentication handler that validates the user’s credentials against a database.

Today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organization behind all web standards, has formally promoted the Web Authentication API to the title of official web standard. This promotion means ...

Using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs): JWTs are publicly available for securely transmitting information between parties as a JSON object. This can be used for authentication and secure information exchange.

At least for web-based scenarios, the answer is finally here in the form of the new Web Authentication (WebAuthN) standard and API.

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