And to build such a secret url, a WRAP token as a query param in the
url would be sufficient.

On Thursday, January 14, 2010, Eve Maler <[email protected]> wrote:
> What's generally done today (think Google Calendar, Flickr, etc.) is use 
> "private" URLs and mail them around.  It doesn't really meet anyone's 
> standards for controlling access to anything valuable -- but it sure is 
> convenient. :-)
>
>         Eve
>
> On 14 Jan 2010, at 11:53 AM, Igor Faynberg wrote:
>
>> John Kemp wrote:
>>> ...
>>> What delegated authorization protocol should be used to deal with those 
>>> "not so serious" use-cases then, if OAuth makes them too expensive?
>>>
>>>
>> I expected this question and dreaded it.  I don't have a good answer, and I 
>> don't think there is one. (In my defense, the airport security cannot find 
>> the way around the wait-wait-wait/shoes-off/belts-off/watches-off routine 
>> for "good" people--who are actually the majority.)
>>
>> One not-so-good answer, but--I think--a workable one is to consider an 
>> (enumerated type) parameter carrying a required security value, something 
>> that would have to come from the user initially, and then specify TLS or any 
>> other cryptographic delicacy based on such value. The only problem is that 
>> end users might happily settle for the highest security, anyway (unless they 
>> have to pay for it).
>>
>> Igor
>
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