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escher-auth
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EscherJS - HTTP request signing lib 
Escher helps you creating secure HTTP requests (for APIs) by signing HTTP(s) requests. It's both a server side and client side implementation. The status is work in progress.
The algorithm is based on Amazon's AWS Signature Version 4, but we have generalized and extended it.
More details are available at our Escher documentation site.
Development
The Test Cases are included as git submodule.
Don't forget to use the git pull --recurse-submodules and the git clone --recurse-submodules to pull and clone the remote repository.
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Library for HTTP request signing (JavaScript implementation)
The npm package escher-auth receives a total of 5,602 weekly downloads. As such, escher-auth popularity was classified as popular.
We found that escher-auth demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 15 Jul 2024
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