Authentication and Authorization
Implement secure user authentication (e.g., JWT) and authorization mechanisms to protect your web service endpoints.
Secure Your Web Services
Welcome! In this lesson, we'll dive into Authentication and Authorization, crucial concepts for building secure web services in Rust.
You'll learn how to protect your API endpoints by ensuring only legitimate users can access them, and only with the right permissions.
Authentication vs. Authorization
These two terms sound similar but mean different things:
- Authentication: Verifies who you are. It's like showing your ID to enter a building.
- Authorization: Determines what you're allowed to do. Once inside, it's about which rooms you can enter.
We'll implement both to secure our Rust web services.
All lessons in this course
- REST APIs with Actix-web/Rocket
- Database Integration (SQLx/Diesel)
- Authentication and Authorization