Articles tagged keys
Why OAuth API Keys and Secrets Aren't Safe in Mobile Apps
It’s pretty common for mobile apps to access backend API services to fetch data. It’s also pretty common for APIs to require secret keys in order to access them. So how do you securely include API keys in a mobile app? Well, the short answer is you don’t. The long answer is the rest of this blog post. Let’s take a look at two ways it’s possible to hack secret API keys out of mobile...