authorization and authentication

Authentication : telling the system who you are by providing username and password. Authorization : things you can do according to who you are ------ few ways of Authorization: Basic Auth -- providing username and password for each and every request you make Token based generate a long token just one time and use that for the rest of the request similar to the visitor tag you get when you go to certain restricted areas API KEY --- Bearer Token --

● authentication --> who are you ● authorization --> what rights do you have ● Authentication is user and password ● Authorization has types: ○ no Authorization ○ Basic Authorization ○ Bearer Token ○ Inherit Auth from parent

web security systems are based on a two-step process. The first step is authentication, which ensures the user identity second step is authorization, which allows the user to access the various resources based on the user's identity.

what is authorization

Authorization :
It's a process of granting or denying access to resources.
Mostly it happens after Authentatication.

Most of the projects I worked on use Bearer token
with JWT in Authorizaiton header.
I have endpoint that I can use to generate this token
and pass it to the each requests in my test.

Different ways to making authorized request:
1- Basic Auth
       (providing username and password along with each request)
2- Api Keys
       (It is provided token by the api vendor and
        it could be as query parameter or header
3- Bearer Token
       (We can get it by requesting to certain endpoint)
       Most known jwt(json web token)
4- Auth2
      (A much more secure way of authorizing your request
      The flow is similar to Login with facabook,google
       Eventually the token still get added to the 
       Authorization header)

Posted by: Guest on December-15-2020

AUTHORIZation usually occures after AUTHENTICation (which establishes identity) process of granting or denying access to resources determines access levels or user/client privileges related to system resources including files, services, computer programs, data and application features.

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