preserving consumer key secrecy (was: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation)

2010-04-14 Thread John SJ Anderson
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 18:26, Raffi Krikorian ra...@twitter.com wrote: yes, it could be a problem - however, there are known solutions to obfuscating and keeping your consumer key secret.  not perfect, but pretty good.  maybe we can start a discussion around this? What's the known solution

Re: preserving consumer key secrecy (was: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation)

2010-04-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
yes, it could be a problem - however, there are known solutions to obfuscating and keeping your consumer key secret. __not perfect, but pretty good. __maybe we can start a discussion around this? What's the known solution for an open-source Web-based application that I want to distribute

Re: preserving consumer key secrecy (was: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Basic Auth Deprecation)

2010-04-14 Thread Abraham Williams
Why not just distribute a key with it? The worst that happens is someone uses it in their app and it gets disabled and some people get pissed off at you. I have yet to hear of this happening to a Twitter application. If someone abuses your key and Twitter does not handle the situation well I will