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# Biscuit authentication token
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Biscuit is a (in development) authentication token for microservices
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architectures with the following properties:
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- distributed authorization: any node could validate the token only with public information
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- offline delegation: a new, valid token can be created from another one by attenuating its rights,
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by its holder, without communicating with the issuer or the verifier
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- capabilities based: authorization in microservices should be tied to rights related to the request,
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instead of relying to an identity that might not make sense to the verifier
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- flexible rights managements: the token specifies a pattern based right specification
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and attenuation syntax taht can map to other rights management systems
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- small enough to fit anywhere (cookies, etc)
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Non goals:
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- this is not a new authentication protocol. Biscuit tokens can be used as opaque tokens delivered by other systems such as OAuth
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- revocation: while tokens come with expiration dates, revocation requires external state management
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