--- title: "Different ways to authenticate your APIs" url: https://daily.dev/posts/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis-ewznuhyhk source_url: https://apoorvtyagi.tech/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis type: article source: "Hashnode" author: "Apoorv Tyagi" published: 2020-10-02T05:21:51.161Z updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z tags: ["authentication"] reading_time: 4 upvotes: 26 comments: 2 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Different ways to authenticate your APIs **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@apoorvtyagi](https://daily.dev/apoorvtyagi) · 4 min read · 26 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary Using basic authentication for authenticating users is usually not recommended since sending the user credentials for every request is a bad practice. API keys are a way to authenticate an application accessing any API without referencing an actual user. OAuth specifies mechanisms where an application can ask a user for access to services on behalf of the user, and receive a token as proof. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@babs** · 4 upvotes > I use JWT to secure my API especially in spring security ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/different-ways-to-authenticate-your-apis-ewznuhyhk)