Security mechanisms built into Jupyter
Jupyter has a variety of security mechanisms available depending on your needs, which we'll discuss in the following points.
How to do it...
Authentication is the process of proving that the user is as originally presented.
Jupyter can use:
- Token-based authentication
- Password authentication
- No authentication
Current versions of Jupyter use token-based authentication by default. If you enable password protection for your application (the typical username and password that you have seen many times), then token-based authentication is disabled.
Token-based authentication
Token-based authentication is where a token is exchanged for all of a user's requests and it must be present in order for any user request to proceed into your application. For example:
- User K connects to your application
- The response from the application has a built-in token that is generated automatically and passed using web headers in the response
- As the application is running in such a web server...
