draft-rampalli-suradar

SURADAR: Context-Bound Per-Request Authentication for Machine-to-Machine APIs

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This document defines SURADAR (Subsurface Undertow RADAR), an HTTP authentication scheme in which each request is authenticated by a one-time HMAC tag derived from a shared seed, the current time band, and the full request context (method, path, organisation, scope, and body). Unlike bearer-token schemes, a captured SURADAR token is cryptographically bound to exactly one request and cannot be reused, replayed, or re-scoped. The protocol requires zero per-request handshakes, produces 48-byte tokens, and relies solely on HMAC- SHA-256 and SHA-256 -- no asymmetric cryptography.