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Inform your users about breached passwords using Pwned Passwords API

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Passwords one of the most frequent ways that we use to access our digital accounts. Having secure passwords is really crucial, and represents one of the most important aspects that we need to pay attention to. As developers, we also need to make sure that we provide our services with a high level of security. Last year 2017 NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) recommended to check user passwords against existing public breaches of data, and fortunately, there exists an API that allows you to do that really easily. Continue reading

HTTP Basic authentication with built-in Ruby on Rails method

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You may have cases when you may need to do some authorizations for certain pages, so that they cannot be accessed by unauthorized clients. There are many authorization ways that you can use in a Ruby on Rails application. In this article, I will mention one very simple, yet not that much famous method that comes implemented and ready to be used each time you create a new Rails application. Continue reading

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