Service Accounts have arrived

Google has introduced Service Accounts to enhance server-to-server interactions with certificate-based authentication, offering better security than shared keys due to their non-human-readable nature. Initially supported by Google Cloud Storage, the Google Prediction API, and several other services, Service Accounts use an OAuth 2.0 flow compliant with draft 25 of the specification. Applications authenticate by generating and signing a JSON structure, encoding it as a JWT, and exchanging it for an access token from Google's OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server. Google provides client libraries for Python, Java, and PHP to simplify these steps, with plans to expand support to Ruby and .NET. Service Accounts extend App Engine capabilities to other server-side platforms and can be created via the Google APIs Console, with detailed documentation available for developers.

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