Welcome to the OAuth wiki

OAuth is an open protocol to allow secure API authentication in a simple and standard method from desktop and web applications.

This wiki aggregates links to code, resources, and hosts documentation and research.

We currently have a mailing list, a website and a number of related resources.

Pages of interest

• Contributing to OAuth
• Error Cases
• Test Cases
• Token Attributes - Permissions and Expiration
• Public Commons
• Signature Methods
• User Experience
• Extensions
• Service Providers
• Implementation Notes
• Google site with advanced OAuth tricks
• Session Fixation Security Advisory

Upcoming Events

• None.

Also see the Upcoming group.

Previous Events

• Internet Identity Workshop - May 18-20, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA.
• Learning About the Open Stack for the Social Web - December 19, 2008 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm at Digg, 135 Mississippi St, San Francisco, CA 94107
• Portable Contacts Summit - Sep 11, 2008 10am-5pm at MySpace, 625 2nd Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94107
• Yahoo! Hack Day - Sep 12-13 at Yahoo!, 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, California CA
• OAuthSummit2008
• OAuthHackathon

Historical Meeting Notes

Promotions

• Logo
• Resources and materials

Reference Authentication APIs

• Facebook Authentication
• Google Authentication via either the OAuth standard or the proprietary AuthSub API
• Yahoo's BBAuth
• Flickr Authentication API
• Amazon Web Services Auth
• AOL's OpenAuth™ (supports dynamic authorization on access)

Mailing Lists

• OAuth Discuss
• OAuth Extensions
• OAuth for Ruby

Elsewhere

• Website
• Blog
• Tumblelog
• Code repository
• Photos and artwork
• Conference presentations
• Related links
• Chat room, [irc://irc.freenode.net/#oauth | IRC]
• Support forums