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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-v2-mac-token

The draft includes:

* An HTTP authentication scheme using a MAC algorithm to authenticate requests 
(via a pre-arranged MAC key).
* An extension to the Set-Cookie header, providing a method for associating a 
MAC key with a session cookie.
* An OAuth 2.0 binding, providing a method of returning MAC credentials as an 
access token.

Some background: OAuth 1.0 introduced an HTTP authentication scheme using HMAC 
for authenticating an HTTP request with partial cryptographic protection of the 
HTTP request (namely, the request URI, host, and port). The OAuth 1.0 scheme 
was designed for delegation-based use cases, but is widely "abused" for simple 
client-server authentication (the poorly named 'two-legged' use case). This 
functionality has been separated from OAuth 2.0 and has been reintroduced as a 
standalone, generally applicable HTTP authentication scheme called MAC.

Comments and feedback is greatly appreciated.

EHL
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