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There's complicated authentication schemes around hmac that tries to do this, but if you're putting that much effort into it you might as well give up and use https.


Some of these include a nonce and/or are deployed over TLS to prevent replay attacks and avoid sending bearer tokens over the wire. AWS sig v4 and RFC7616 come to mind.




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