HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) is a security feature that tells a web client to associate a specific cryptographic public key with a certain web server to decrease the risk of MITM attacks with forged certificates.
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- Block cipher mode of operation
- Certificate authority
- Challenge-response authentication
- Cipher
- Cipher suite
- Ciphertext
- CORS
- CORS-safelisted request header
- CORS-safelisted response header
- Cross-site scripting
- Cryptanalysis
- Cryptographic hash function
- Cryptography
- CSP
- CSRF
- Decryption
- Digital certificate
- DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security)
- Encryption
- Forbidden header name
- Forbidden response header name
- Hash
- HMAC
- HSTS
- HTTPS
- Key
- MitM
- OWASP
- Preflight request
- Public-key cryptography
- Reporting directive
- Robots.txt
- Same-origin policy
- Session Hijacking
- SQL Injection
- Symmetric-key cryptography
- TOFU
- Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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- Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/HPKP
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