IndieAuth explained

IndieAuth is an open standard decentralized authentication protocol that uses OAuth 2.0 and enables services to verify the identity of a user represented by a URL, as well as to obtain an access token, that can be used to access resources under the control of the user.^[1]

IndieAuth is developed in the IndieWeb community and was published as a W3C Note. It was published as a W3C Note by the Social Web Working Group due to lacking the time needed to formally progress it to a W3C recommendation, despite having several interoperable implementations.^[2]

Implementations

• WordPress IndieAuth Plugin^[3]
• Known^[4]
• Micro.blog^[5]
• Grav (CMS) IndieAuth Plugin^[6]
• Drupal IndieWeb Plugin^[7]
• Cellar Door^[8]

See also

• OpenID
• WebID

External links

• IndieAuth specification

Notes and References

1. Web site: IndieAuth. World Wide Web Consortium. 2018-01-23. 2018-07-16.
2. Book: Lagally . Michael . McCool . Michael . IoT Interoperability with W3C Web of Things . 2022-01-08 . 2022 IEEE 19th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) . http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccnc49033.2022.9700546 . 1–5 . IEEE . 10.1109/ccnc49033.2022.9700546. 978-1-6654-3161-3 . 246753985 .
3. Web site: IndieAuth.
4. Web site: Home . indieauth.net.
5. Web site: Manton Reece - IndieAuth for Micro.blog. 2 July 2018 .
6. Web site: IndieAuth Plugin. GitHub. 21 March 2021.
7. Web site: IndieWeb. 13 March 2018.
8. Web site: Glitch: The friendly community where everyone builds the web.