doc/notes.md

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   2 title: Notes on macaroons and their implementation in haskell
   3 author: Julien Tanguy
   4 date: 2015-05-13
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   7 Macaroons are not better than readily available SPKI/SDSI
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   9 They provide a framework for any token-based credential systems in the cloud
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  11 Examples:
  12 - Cookies
  13 - OAuth tokens
  14 - SAML/OpenID assertions
  15 - unlisted URLs
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  17 Macaroons support:
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  19 - attenuation
  20 - delegation
  21 - contextual confinement
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