Louise-Amélie Schmitt wrote:
Hello everyone,
These questions are a bit silly but I'm really ignorant when it comes to security. Sorry about that.
Why use API keys instead of user names? Is it to to prevent anyone from figuring out who is behind an URL? Or did I miss the point?
Hi L-A, To provide a username password, we'd either need to implement HTTP Authentication in Galaxy for these resources, or encode it in the URL. If in the URL, the password have to be non-plaintext which would require encoding on the user's end. The key model seemed to be simplest since it doesn't require you to handle HTTP Authentication in your client-side code.
Also, why encrypt the dataset/library/folder ids when a simple display is enough to get them?
Anywhere that the IDs are visible are remnants of old code and should eventually be removed. --nate
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