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We aim to build systems users can use securely. We cannot do so by painting a user interface on security models even programmers find incomprehensible. The Belay Research Project seeks to research and co-design the user experience and underlying architecture.
Our current work is focused on developing the Belay Cloud Access Protocol: a protocol and API that provides a simple, yet secure, mechanism for interactions between components on the web and in the browser. It enables cloud applications to build facilities such as sharing, accounts, and 3rd party access in a way that is both more secure, and more understandable to the user.
The Belay project is developing BCAP and building software that implements it in a variety of execution environments (JavaScript, AppEngine, etc...). The team is also developing toolkits of for facilities that can be built on BCAP. In conjunction with these developme