OAuth

During the development of the Nucleus architecture we needed a way of securing our APIs. At that time, Facebook had just launched their Open Graph data store which was secured by the draft OAuth v2.0 protocol which allows for secure API authorisation. Alex Bilbie read through the specification and developed a prototype OAuth 2.0 authorisation server which later became the University’s ‘Single Sign On’ service. During summer 2011, Alex contributed to the development of the OAuth 2.0 specification and updated our implementation to the latest draft.

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An open source version of our OAuth server can be found on Github

This isn’t your grandmother’s API permissions control layer…