There's no good reason for signing webhooks

by mfbx9da4on 1/2/2025, 5:28 PMwith 3 comments

by wlockivon 1/2/2025, 6:36 PM

I think it's fair to describe the need for signing as a lemming. However, I wonder why the initial evangelists of this standard (that is, in our current post-http era) chose signing instead of API Keys.

So often these kinds of things are a reaction to some negative experience.

by mfbx9da4on 1/2/2025, 5:55 PM

Hey, author here. Pleasure to work on this article. I'd welcome strong opinions :-)