Re: Hawk HTTP Auth System

On 6/25/13 6:22 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
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> On 24 June 2013 14:32, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com 
> <mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     From one of the inventors of OAuth, he claims to have fixed some
>     of the issues.
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>     "Hawk is an HTTP authentication scheme using a message
>     authentication code (MAC) algorithm to provide partial HTTP
>     request cryptographic verification."
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>     A brief scan leads me to believe this also compatible with WebID
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>     https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
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> 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 ...

 From our perspective, it will get the same treatment as HTTP Signatures 
and Web Keys. Basically, an HTTP URI that denotes a public key is 
(literally) the key to cobbling together these puzzle pieces :-)

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Received on Tuesday, 25 June 2013 11:45:50 UTC