Title: Simple solution for external REST API authentication
Last modified: November 29, 2017

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# Simple solution for external REST API authentication

 *  [aduth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aduth/)
 * (@aduth)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-solution-for-external-rest-api-authentication/)
 * Easy to use for authenticating REST API requests from an external client. Obviously
   one should still be mindful to security considerations of basic auth scheme, 
   but fortunately SSL certificates are easy to acquire these days with services
   like LetsEncrypt.

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