Say Goodbye to Tedious API Key Management: Streamlining Your API Authentication

This article critiques the cumbersome process of current API key management and proposes a simpler and more efficient solution. The author demonstrates how using the `jose` library to easily generate JWK key pairs allows developers to generate their own API keys without tedious steps like account registration and email verification. The solution uses JWTs with claims and public keys for authorization and provides a payment URL-based charging mechanism, along with a key derivation method for B2B2C scenarios. This simplifies API authentication, improves development efficiency, and offers more secure key management.