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Restful Java Web Services Security

Restful Java Web Services Security

By : Enríquez
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Restful Java Web Services Security

Restful Java Web Services Security

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By: Enríquez
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A sequential and easy-to-follow guide which allows you to understand the concepts related to securing web apps/services quickly and efficiently, since each topic is explained and described with the help of an example and in a step-by-step manner, helping you to easily implement the examples in your own projects. This book is intended for web application developers who use RESTful web services to power their websites. Prior knowledge of RESTful is not mandatory, but would be advisable.
Table of Contents (7 chapters)
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Setting Up the Environment
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1. Setting Up the Environment
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Downloading tools
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Creating the base project
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First functional example
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Summary
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2. The Importance of Securing Web Services
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2. The Importance of Securing Web Services
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The importance of security
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Security management options
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API keys
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Summary
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3. Security Management with RESTEasy
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3. Security Management with RESTEasy
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Fine-grained and coarse-grained security
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4. RESTEasy Skeleton Key
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4. RESTEasy Skeleton Key
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OAuth protocol
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OAuth and RESTEasy Skeleton Key
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SSO configuration for security management
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OAuth token via Basic Auth
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Custom filters
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5. Digital Signatures and Encryption of Messages
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5. Digital Signatures and Encryption of Messages
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Digital signatures
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Message body encryption
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Index
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Chapter 5. Digital Signatures and Encryption of Messages

Since many systems interact with each other to achieve their business goals, we often feel the obligation to interact with services exposed by others. Also, when security needs play an important role, we must verify that the information we receive has been sent from whom we expected, and it has come without being altered. It is here where digital signatures will play an important role and help us meet this need.

Also, we may sometimes need to encrypt the message body to prevent it from being read if intercepted by unwanted persons. It is here where we can make use of Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or the S/MIME standard, which is commonly used in the world of e-mail for public keys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key), encryption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption), and signing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature) of MIME data (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME), and which also offers...

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