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Key Authentication - Encrypted

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Related Documentation
Gateway Documentation
Made by
Kong Inc.
Incompatible with
konnect
Supported Gateway Topologies
hybrid db-less traditional
Compatible Protocols
grpc grpcs http https ws wss
Minimum Version
Kong Gateway - 1.0
Related Resources
Key Authentication plugin
Enable key authentication on a Gateway Service with Kong Gateway
Keyring

3.11.0.6

Release date 2025/11/03

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where for incremental sync, caches may not be properly invalidated, causing stale data to be served.

3.8.0.0

Release date 2024/09/11

Bugfix

  • Added WWW-Authenticate headers to all 401 responses.

3.5.0.0

Release date 2023/11/08

Bugfix

  • Enhance error responses for authentication failures in the Admin API

3.2.1.0

Release date 2023/02/28

Bugfix

  • Fixed the ttl parameter. You can now set ttl for an encrypted key.

  • Fixed an issue where this plugin didn’t accept tags.

3.1.0.0

Release date 2022/12/06

Feature

  • The anonymous field can now be configured as the username of the consumer. This field allows you to configure a string to use as an “anonymous” consumer if authentication fails.

2.8.4.0

Release date 2023/03/28

Bugfix

  • Fixed an issue where using an API key that exists in multiple workspaces caused a 401 error. This occurred because of a caching issue.

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