Re: Hawk HTTP Auth System

On 24 June 2013 14:32, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:

> From one of the inventors of OAuth, he claims to have fixed some of the
> issues.
>
> "Hawk is an HTTP authentication scheme using a message authentication code
> (MAC) algorithm to provide partial HTTP request cryptographic verification."
>
> A brief scan leads me to believe this also compatible with WebID
>
> https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
>

I asked Eran about this, and it should be possible to identify using a URI
... so this might be another great auth system that could work with WebID,
email identifiers, or others ...