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Add API Token Cache (#16547)
One of the issues holding back performance of the API is the problem of hashing.
Whilst banning BASIC authentication with passwords will help, the API Token scheme
still requires a PBKDF2 hash - which means that heavy API use (using Tokens) can
still cause enormous numbers of hash computations.

A slight solution to this whilst we consider moving to using JWT based tokens and/or
a session orientated solution is to simply cache the successful tokens. This has some
security issues but this should be balanced by the security issues of load from
hashing.

Related #14668

Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>

Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
2021-08-17 14:30:42 -04:00
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doc Add API Token Cache (#16547) 2021-08-17 14:30:42 -04:00
page Fix various documentation, user-facing, and source comment typos (#16367) 2021-07-08 13:38:13 +02:00