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wibblenut on March 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using DNS as a thin ID system

Neat. You could drop the HTTP part and use pure DNS:

$ dig @auth-ns hashed-password.andy.tel naptr

NXDOMAIN on failure, NAPTR record (or a set of records) on success.

Your comment about DNS being an API is right on.

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