NAME Hey::heyPass - Client for heyPass Centralized Authentication System DESCRIPTION heyPass is a centralized authentication system made for any web application that needs user authentication. The heyPass system is hosted, maintained, and managed by hey.nu Network Community Services and Megagram Managed Technical Services in a joint venture to help web application developers provide a safe, user privacy-controlled authentication and profile data sharing system. All data stored within heyPass by individual applications can be shared with other heyPass-powered applications based on the user's permission and the application's permission settings. This system makes it easy for an application to store both public and private data for a user and share only permitted data with other applications that have been given permission by the user. Through this system, no heyPass-powered applications have access to the user's login information, email address, or any other identifying data. Upon successful login, the only piece of data that an application is given is a user UUID that identifies that user with that application. Only after the application requests specific profile data and the user has given explicit permission via a web interface will an application be able to access additional data stored within heyPass. This system ensure that a user's privacy is maintained at the levels that they prefer. For example, a user is not required to provide an application their email address or identity information just to login. This system was originally designed as a central authentication system for hey.nu Network Official sites, but it is now being made available to the general public. Any application developer or application owner may use the heyPass system for their applications. Any heyPass user can create their own applications and any application developer can distribute their heyPass-powered applications to others. AUTHOR Dusty Wilson hey.nu Network Community Services Megagram Managed Technical Services cpan-hey-heypass@dusty.hey.nu http://heypass2.hey.nu/ COPYRIGHT This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.