The goal of this project is to develop a standards compliant [OAuth 2](http://tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/draft-ietf-oauth-v2/) authentication server, resource server and client library with support for a major OAuth 2 providers.
The resource server allows you to secure your API endpoints by checking for a valid OAuth access token in the request and ensuring the token has the correct permission to access resources.
## Future Goals
### Authentication Server
* Support for [JSON web tokens](http://tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token/).
* Support for [SAML assertions](http://tools.ietf.org/wg/oauth/draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer/).
This code will be developed as part of the [Linkey](http://linkey.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk) project which has been funded by [JISC](http://jisc.ac.uk) under the Access and Identity Management programme.