INS Service authentication

platisd / indoor-navigation-system

[WIP] An indoor navigation system to guide users towards their colleagues' desks

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INS Service authentication #60

Open samup4web opened 6 years ago

samup4web commented 6 years ago

Description

As a INS service, I want to authenticate all my users(INS nodes and user applications) to ensure all data I receive are from trusted and legit sources.

Definition of Done

INS service uses authentication for all its communication.

platisd commented 6 years ago

Any thoughts how is this to be done?

samup4web commented 6 years ago

@platisd I believe basic HTTP header authentication will work just fine for our need. If we want we can build on the basic header auth for more advanced solution. Read up

platisd commented 6 years ago

Seeing how the implementation could be slightly tricky on the microcontroller side, can you describe the misuse case that this story would satisfy?