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Resources/materials for implementing secure web services?

I'm implementing a REST-style (note: it needs to be more pragmatic than canonical) web API and I would like to secure it. The language I'm using is rather fresh and doesn't have a lot of high quality ...
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Basic Authentication with WebAPI and HTML/JS Client?

I just purchased Badri L's Pro ASP.NET Web API Security in an attempt to learn the least-expensive means to securing my WebAPI, in terms of time-to-implement. I have zero experience with security and ...
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Is request signing (digesting the request body) in a REST API necessary?

I am currently engaged in a debate and I wondered what the community's opinion on this was. We see REST APIs which just require basic authentication (perhaps HTTP) or OAuth. We see REST APIs which ...
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Best way to secure javascript front end/REST back end architecture web site?

I would like to build the following project: public REST API back end which can be accessed by any authenticated client. front end with static files in HTML/CSS/Javascript with Backbone.js jQuery ...