Securing Spring Boot REST API with Spring Security Digest Authentication
6 min readSep 22, 2024
The purpose of this story is to explain how to secure a Spring Boot API using Spring Security Digest Authentication.
· Prerequisites
· Overview
∘ What is Digest Authentication?
∘ Why use Digest Authentication?
∘ Basic Authentication vs. Digest Authentication
· Getting Started
∘ Creating entities
∘ The UserDetailsService
∘ Spring Security configuration
∘ REST Controller
∘ Project structure
· Testing
· Conclusion
· References
Prerequisites
This is the list of all the prerequisites:
Overview
What is Digest Authentication?
Digest Authentication tries to overcome some weaknesses of Basic authentication, specifically by ensuring credentials are…