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Re:L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrast... by JohnFen on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @10:43AM (#40977088)
Unimportant side question: why are they called "macaroons"? I find that a bit offputting in its cutesiness, and the word doesn't even give a hint as to what they are (aside from being a flavor of cookie, I guess).
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Re:L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrast... by giobox on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @12:24PM (#40977959)
> aside from being a flavor of cookie, I guess

I suspect you have answered your own question - historically cookies in the browser have been one way to identify and control what a user can access, I'm guessing authors have continued the small baked goods theme in naming their own access token.

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Re:L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrast... by JohnFen on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @01:04PM (#40978282)
Perhaps I needed to be more specific in my question. "It's a flavor of cookie" doesn't satisfy my curiosity. What I really want to know is why a special term was invented for it in the first place.
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Re:L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrast... by positiveblue on Tuesday July 16, 2024 @02:19PM (#40978923)
Well, the answer is "I do not know"

Now, if I had to guess, this are "a new kind of cookies" so they just took a name that went with it (like they did with biscuits https://www.biscuitsec.org/)

There are many chances that they got he name wrong and they meant Macaron (with one O instead of two). Those are "layered" cookies, which bring some resemblance on how "caveats" can be understood.

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Re:L402: The Missing Piece in the Internet's Payment Infrast... by retardretard on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @06:42AM (#40984464)
https://research.google/pubs/macaroons-cookies-with-contextu...
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