Let me try to break down your question to multiple subquestions/assumption: Assumptions: a) Keychain is safe place Actually, it’s not that safe. If your application is installed on jailbroked device, a hacker will be able to get your keys from the keychain Questions: a) Is there a way to put some key into an app … Read more
For authentication keys, create a random value and store that value in a database. random() provides insufficient entropy for things like this, so use os.urandom(). The link you posted to has a very good example of how to handle things with a decorator function. In the decorator function, check the appkey value is set in … Read more
Don’t know what language you are using, but for example in C/C++ you’d add a include file with the API keys, and then leave it out of source control, instead add a bogus file with explicitly fake API keys. Most languages have one or the other way to include files.
You should consider using .env files and read the keys from the environmental variables. How to do so depends on the language and tools you use (for node.js, php, etc.). You can exclude .env file from commits by adding .env to the .gitignore. You can also upload an example configuration .env.example with dummy data or … Read more
Whilst it is true that V3 of the Google Maps API does not require an API key, it is there for a reason. Google recently introduced the following usage limits: Web sites and applications using each of the Maps API may at no cost generate: up to 25,000 map loads per day for each API … Read more
1. How to use variables in index.html? Answer 1 : Please go through Adding Custom Environment Variables to find out how to add environment variables of the type that you have shown as an example. 2. Doesn’t the API key still end up in the bundle? Answer 2 : Even when you have your key … Read more
You are able to achieve by using HMAC Authentication. Basically, there might be a database table called ApiKey (apiKey, secretKey). Each client has each Apikey and secret Key: ApiKey is like a public key and will be sent over HTTP (similar with username). Secret Key is not sent over HTTP, use this secret key to … Read more
The API key itself is most probably a one way hash of the domain the key is associated with and a secret only the Google API server knows about. It may contain some other pieces of well-known (to Google of course) information. When you make a request from that domain, the API server takes the … Read more
Travis has a feature to encrypt environment variables (“Encrypting environment variables”). This can be used to protect your secret API keys. I’ve successfully used this for my Heroku API key. All you have to do is install the travis gem, encrypt the string you want and add the encrypted string in your .travis.yml. The encryption … Read more
It should be put in the HTTP Authorization header. The spec is here https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7235