IndieAuth

{{Verification|date=August 2023}}{{short description|Decentralized authentication protocol using OAuth 2.0}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://indieauth.net|title=IndieAuth Website |publisher=World Wide Web Consortium |access-date=2025-01-22}}{{cite web |url=http://aaronparecki.com/2024/05/12/3/fedcm-for-indieauth |title=FedCM for IndieAuth |first=Aaron |last=Parecki |date=May 12, 2024 |access-date=January 22, 2025}}{{cite web|url=https://www.w3.org/TR/indieauth/|title=IndieAuth W3C Working Group|publisher=World Wide Web Consortium|date=2018-01-23|access-date=2018-07-16}}

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.{{Cite book |last1=Lagally |first1=Michael |last2=McCool |first2=Michael |chapter=IoT Interoperability with W3C Web of Things |date=2022-01-08 |title=2022 IEEE 19th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ccnc49033.2022.9700546 |pages=1–5 |publisher=IEEE |doi=10.1109/ccnc49033.2022.9700546|isbn=978-1-6654-3161-3 |s2cid=246753985 }}