Capabilities and User Managed Access (UMA)

"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Mar 2015 15:58:52 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
Message-ID <8AD823089998C849A832D86972E69CD54FE4AD6A@G4W3222.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Eve Maler's talk on UMA is available at http://kit.mit.edu/seminars/2015-webinars.  I don't think the UMAnitarians (Yes, that's what they call themselves.) know that they are using OAuth bearer tokens as capabilities, but they are.  That disconnect leads to some oddities, but I believe they are tolerable.  The part that interests me is the way UMA uses OAuth to enforce user-defined access policies.

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