API key authentication was invented to overcome the weaknesses of shared credentials which was a big problem in HTTP basic authentication. It can be used for two think. First client app identification, to identify the application that's making a call to your backends API. Second, client app authorization, which checks whether the calling application has been granted access to call the API.
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