Difference between revisions of "Web/Libraries/Sessions and Authentication"

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Below are libraries used to provide authentication, sessions, logins, etc. for web sites.

authenticate

A library for allowing third-party logins to your sites. Currently supports openid version 1 and rpxnow. Focus is on remote authentication methods, such as OpenID, rpxnow and Google.

License: BSD3

Author: Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>

Maintainer: Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com>

Package & repositories

Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/authenticate
Github: http://github.com/snoyberg/authenticate

clientsession

clientsession encrypts and hashes data so it can be stored in a cookie safely. This allows you to have very scalable user sessions: you can use multiple servers, and they need only share the encryption key. Achieves security through AES encryption and MD5 hashing. Uses base64 encoding to avoid any issues with characters.