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summary: Spec how macaroons can be used for HMAC per-request security so clients can implement it
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created: 2015-09-22 21:49:47.0
creator: neb
description: Submitted by @matthew:matrix.org
id: '11913'
key: SPEC-231
number: '231'
priority: '3'
project: '10001'
reporter: neb
resolution: '3'
resolutiondate: 2016-10-26 20:41:04.0
status: '5'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-10-26 20:41:04.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '12016'
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actions:
- author: richvdh
  body: |-
    We no longer require access tokens to be macaroons, and in any case they wouldn't be much good for HMACing requests. 

    Closing this in favour of SPEC-112
  created: 2016-10-26 20:40:08.0
  id: '13225'
  issue: '11913'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-26 20:40:08.0