October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
11h 39m
English
A great deal of API security is dealing with standards and protocols. Those standards and protocols are described in formal documents called Request for Comments (RFCs), which are published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Throughout this book, we have made references to many RFCs that describe how Open Authorization works, what JSON Web Tokens look like, what JSON Web Keys are, and so on. And by this point, you may be wondering, “Damn, where is that RFC that describes what JSON Web Keys are?” Well, wonder no more. In this appendix, I’ve put together the most important RFCs that you, as an API security practitioner, should know about, and I highly encourage you to read through ...
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