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Advanced API Security: OAuth 2.0 and Beyond
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Advanced API Security: OAuth 2.0 and Beyond

by Prabath Siriwardena
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
455 pages
10h 33m
English
Apress
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© Prabath Siriwardena 2020
P. SiriwardenaAdvanced API Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2050-4_22

OAuth 2.0 MAC Token Profile

Prabath Siriwardena1 
(1)
San Jose, CA, USA
 

The OAuth 2.0 core specification doesn’t mandate any specific token type. It’s one of the extension points introduced in OAuth 2.0. Almost all public implementations use the OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Profile. This came up with the OAuth 2.0 core specification, but as an independent profile, documented under RFC 6750. Eran Hammer, who was the lead editor of the OAuth 2.0 specification by that time, introduced the Message Authentication Code (MAC) Token Profile for OAuth 2.0. (Hammer also led the OAuth 1.0 specification.) Since its introduction to the OAuth 2.0 IETF working group ...

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