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Sam L’ecuyer on Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats

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This month Sam will present "Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization in the Cloud (http://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html)" by Arnar Birgisson and Joe Gibbs Politz and Úlfar Erlingsson and Ankur Taly and Michael Vrable and Mark Lentczner.

Cookies are the ubiquitous method of authorization on the Web, but they’re not without shortcomings. Subject to theft & forgery, cookies are essentially unsharable.

Sam will talk about macaroons as a way to safely share & delegate authorization between sites and services. Using very simple cryptographic methods, we can efficiently create and verify tokens allowing access under specified conditions.

The effects of this range from logging in to websites, increasing privacy on social media, and even more secure banking.

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Sam is a sr software engineer at Yahoo where he builds the apps that play the videos that people want to watch. @cateches on twitter.

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Huge thanks to the LMU CS Dept. for hosting us this month.

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