Safe Creative API Web Services Reference v2 - D R A F T
Desktop Applications
Desktop application design has some security concerns. The objetive of the security design of this type of applications must be not store the private key (and maybe the shared key too) of the api in the application distributable. This included
direct harcoding of the keys or any other form of encryption. The recommended way of design is the use of a gatekeeper as a service for the application. This gatekeeper provide required user authorizations to the application.
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