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API Authentication in 2026: API Key, JWT or OAuth2? A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right One
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API Authentication in 2026: API Key, JWT or OAuth2? A Practical Guide to Choosing the Right One

[2026-06-11] Author: Ing. Calogero Bono

You have an API to protect and you're facing three acronyms: API Key, JWT, OAuth2. Choosing the wrong one means either a security hole or unnecessary overhead. We at Meteora Web see it every day in the projects we take on: developers using JWT when a simple API key would do, or implementing OAuth2 thinking it's mandatory for every third-party service. Let's start with the concrete problem: what are you protecting and who needs access?

Ing. Calogero Bono

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Ing. Calogero Bono

Ingegnere Informatico, co-fondatore di Meteora Web. Esperto in architetture software, sicurezza informatica e sviluppo sistemi scalabili.
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