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Look into Macaroons for cross-signing

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#52 opened on May 10, 2017

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https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html describes a way to grant capabilities in a way the receiver can attenuate and pass on. We're thinking of having authorities counter-sign packages in order to say, for example, that FooCorp trusts this package to fetch() from internal systems. Maybe macaroons are a better way to express this.

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Investigate the Macaroon paper and explore how it could be applied to cross signing packages in web packaging. Provide a summary and potential integration approach.
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go
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securitybackend
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4
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Half day
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Clear
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cryptographywebpackaging
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30