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Import liboauth-0.8.9 into the Packages Collection. This is an updated version of the liboauth package in pkgsrc-wip by Kamel Derouiche, modified by myself not to have nss, doxygen, perl and graphviz pre-requisites. OAuth (Open Authorization) is an open standard that allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their username and password. OAuth allows users to hand out tokens instead of usernames and passwords to their data hosted by a given service provider. Each token grants access to a specific site (e.g. a video editing site) for specific resources (e.g. just videos from a specific album) and for a defined duration (e.g. the next 2 hours). Thus OAuth allows a user to grant a third party site access to their information stored with another service provider, without sharing their access permissions or the full extent of their data. OAuth is a service that is complementary to but distinct from OpenID. liboauth is a collection of C functions implementing the OAuth Core 1.0 standard API. liboauth provides basic functions to escape and encode parameters according to OAuth specs and offers high-level functions to sign requests or verify signatures. Necessary these days for twitter applications; useful for flickr and many others...