{"id":229959,"date":"2021-07-14T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T04:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229959"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T04:33:28","slug":"behind-githubs-new-authentication-token-formats-the-github-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=229959","title":{"rendered":"Behind GitHub&#8217;s new authentication token formats | The GitHub Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We of course can\u2019t forget about token entropy. Entropy is a logarithmic measure of information or uncertainty inherent in the possible token combinations. We use it as a representation of uniqueness for a given pattern and it\u2019s important to maintain for the vast number of tokens we generate everyday. For personal access tokens alone, we create over 10k on a slow day and upwards of 18k on peak days. With our new formats, not only did we maintain our previous levels \u2014 we increased them!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/github.blog\/2021-04-05-behind-githubs-new-authentication-token-formats\/\">Behind GitHub&#8217;s new authentication token formats | The GitHub Blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We of course can\u2019t forget about token entropy. Entropy is a logarithmic measure of information or uncertainty inherent in the possible token combinations. We use it as a representation of uniqueness for a given pattern and it\u2019s important to maintain for the vast number of tokens we generate everyday. For personal access tokens alone, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229960,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229959\/revisions\/229960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}