Introduction to Web Authentication
Explore how web authentication secures user-specific interactions in web applications. Understand the role of passwords, the challenges of managing sessions, and how JSON Web Tokens provide a scalable, cryptographically signed method to maintain user authentication seamlessly.
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How are web applications made secure?
Many web applications are fully functional without logging users in, creating accounts or securing data. For example, Google search, Wikipedia, and Stack Overflow do not require accounts. On the other hand, we won’t get far with Amazon, Facebook, or Quora without creating an account, even if we can see some content without one. Creating and managing accounts is slightly more complicated than just making a regular website. We must customize the site to each user, and their information must be protected from other ...