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<h3 id="authentication">Authentication<a class="headerlink" href="#authentication" title="Permanent link">&para;</a></h3>
<p>To call the SharePoint APIs via MSAL you are required to use certificate authentication with your application. Fully covering certificates is outside the scope of these docs, but the following commands were used with openssl to create testing certs for the sample code below.</p>
<pre><code class="language-cmd">mkdir \temp
cd \temp
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -k