README.md

   1 Macaroons: Pure haskell implementation of macaroons [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/jtanguy/hmacaroons.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/jtanguy/hmacaroons)
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   3
   4 Macaroons is a pure haskell implementation of macaroons. It aims to provide
   5 compatibility at a serialized level with the [reference implementation](https://github.com/rescrv/libmacaroons)
   6 and the [python implementation](https://github.com/ecordell/pymacaroons)
   7
   8 **WARNING: This library has not been audited by security experts.**
   9 **There is no error handling at the moment, everyhting is silently accepted**
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  11 It is developed in the purpose of exploration purposes, and would need much
  12 more attention if it were to be used in production.
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  14 References
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  17 Papers and articles
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  19
  20 - [Google paper on macaroons](http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html)
  21 - [Macaroons at Mozilla](https://air.mozilla.org/macaroons-cookies-with-contextual-caveats-for-decentralized-authorization-in-the-cloud/)
  22 - [Time for better security in NoSQL](http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/11/23/macaroons-in-hyperdex/)
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  24 Implementations
  25 ---------------
  26
  27 - [C](https://github.com/rescrv/libmacaroons)
  28 - [Java](https://github.com/nitram509/jmacaroons)
  29 - [Node.js](https://github.com/nitram509/macaroons.js)
  30 - [Python](https://github.com/ecordell/pymacaroons)
  31 - [Rust](https://github.com/cryptosphere/rust-macaroons.git)
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  33 TODO
  34 ====
  35
  36 - Third party caveats
  37 - Verify Macaroons
  38 - Discharge Macaroons
  39 - JSON serialization
  40 - Quickcheck tests
  41 - Error handling
  42 - FFI's for testing and benchmarking purposes