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libmacaroons

Libmacaroons provides flexible authorization credentials that support decentralized delegation, attenuation, and verification, and is used by HyperDex.

  • Library
  • SECURITY
  • Dev
  • Dependency only
official+codex · reviewed · Jun 1, 2026 description in en

Description

Macaroon authorization credentials help distributed systems delegate and attenuate access without issuing completely new secrets for every case. They are useful for services that need caveats, verification, and flexible authorization tokens.

This is a security library, not an account manager. Correct use depends on secret-key handling, caveat validation, expiration, and careful design of what each token may authorize.

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