On 6/25/13 6:22 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > > > > On 24 June 2013 14:32, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com > <mailto: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 ... 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 :-) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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