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# Biscuit authentication token
# Biscuit authentication/authorization token
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## Goals
Biscuit is a (in development) authentication token for microservices
Biscuit is an authentication and authorization token for microservices
architectures with the following properties:
- distributed authorization: any node could validate the token only with public
- distributed authentication: any node could validate the token only with public
information;
- offline delegation: a new, valid token can be created from another one by
attenuating its rights, by its holder, without communicating with anyone;