List/Grid Tag Archives: Apache Shiro

A Grails plugin to bridge Spring Security and Shiro
I started using Spring Security in 2007 when I was tasked with adding security to a Spring/Hibernate application at the company I was working for. There were a few options to choose ...

Apache Shiro Part 3 – Cryptography
Besides securing web pages and managing access rights Apache Shiro does also basic cryptography tasks. The framework is able to:encrypt and decrypt data, hash data, generate ...

Apache Shiro Part 2 – Realms, Database and PGP Certificates
This is second part of series dedicated to Apache Shiro. We started previous part with simple unsecured web application. When we finished, the application had basic authentication ...

Apache Shiro Part 1 – Basics
Apache Shiro, originally called JSecurity, is Java security framework. It was accepted and became Apache top level project in 2010. It aims to be powerful and easy to be used. The ...

Secure Encryption in Java
Last time I wrote about cryptography, I outlined Apache Shiro crypto API and shown how to use its two symmetric ciphers. I also wrote that “You do not need more to encrypt and ...

Apache Shiro : Application Security Made Easy
Considering that JAVA is over 10+ years old, the number of choices for application developers that need to build authentication and authorization into their applications is shockingly ...

