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ActivityPub Authentication & Authorization

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Link to original source: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/

By W3C Social Web Working Group: Christopher Lemmer Webber, Jessica Tallon, Erin Shepherd, Amy Guy, Evan Prodromou

Published on 23 January 2018

Submitted on 8 August 2020

Category:

Problem

Tags:

technical

B.1 Authentication and Authorization

ActivityPub uses authentication for two purposes; first, to authenticate clients to servers, and secondly in federated implementations to authenticate servers to each other.

Unfortunately at the time of standardization, there are no strongly agreed upon mechanisms for authentication. Some possible directions for authentication are laid out in the Social Web Community Group Authentication and Authorization best practices report.

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