Monday, 14th October 2024
I Was A Teenage Foot Clan Ninja.
My name is Danny Pennington, I am 48 years old, and between 1988 in 1995 I was a ninja in the Foot Clan.
I enjoyed this TMNT parody a lot.
Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol (GNAP) (via) RFC 9635 was published a few days ago. GNAP is effectively OAuth 3 - it's a newly standardized design for a protocol for delegating authorization so an application can access data on your behalf.
The most interesting difference between GNAP and OAuth 2 is that GNAP no longer requires clients to be registered in advance. With OAuth the client_id and client_secret need to be configured for each application, which means applications need to register with their targets - creating a new application on GitHub or Twitter before implementing the authorization flow, for example.
With GNAP that's no longer necessary. The protocol allows a client to provide a key as part of the first request to the server which is then used in later stages of the interaction.
GNAP has been brewing for a long time. The IETF working group was chartered in 2020, and two of the example implementations (gnap-client-js and oauth-xyz-nodejs) last saw commits more than four years ago.