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Mohawk is an alternate Python implementation of the
Hawk HTTP authorization scheme_.
Hawk lets two parties securely communicate with each other using
messages signed by a shared key.
It is based on HTTP MAC access authentication (which
was based on parts of OAuth 1.0).
The Mohawk API is a little different from that of the Node library
(i.e. the living Hawk spec <https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk>_).
It was redesigned to be more intuitive to developers, less prone to security problems, and more Pythonic.
Full documentation: https://mohawk.readthedocs.io/
.. Hawk HTTP authorization scheme: https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
.. HTTP MAC access authentication: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-v2-mac-token-05
.. _OAuth 1.0: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5849