Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and server for identity authentication, related to communication technique to solve system overload problem caused by invalid access ID attack. The method may include: a server receiving an API calling request from third party developer, the API calling request carrying access ID generated in advance by server and assigned to the third party developer; searching for a version character carried in the access ID; based on a version character generation rule, verifying whether the version number marked by the version character being the same as a version number of the check character generation rule used by the server; when the version character being verified successfully, searching for at least a check character carried in the access ID; and based on the check character generation rule, verifying respectively on the at least a check character. The disclosure is applied to API calling request process.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and server for identity authentication, related to communication technique to solve system overload problem caused by invalid access ID attack. The method may include: a server receiving an API calling request from third party developer, the API calling request carrying access ID generated in advance by server and assigned to the third party developer; searching for a version character carried in the access ID; based on a version character generation rule, verifying whether the version number marked by the version character being the same as a version number of the check character generation rule used by the server; when the version character being verified successfully, searching for at least a check character carried in the access ID; and based on the check character generation rule, verifying respectively on the at least a check character. The disclosure is applied to API calling request process.