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Hawk is a MAC-based HTTP authentication scheme that provides partial cryptographic verification of HTTP messages. Hawk requires a symmetric key to be shared between the client and the server out-of-band. For more info, see here.
Hawk 101
The client sends an HTTP request, like so.
The server returns a challenge, like so.
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Reblogged this on brockallen and commented:
It’s awesome that we now have Hawk support in Thinktecture IdentityModel!