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...If you're implementing a TCP/UDP protocol directly or want to utilize your authentication via channels in Phoenix, Guardian can work for you. The core currency of authentication in Guardian is the token. By default JSON Web Tokens are supported out of the box but you can use any token that Has the concept of a key-value payload, is tamper-proof, can serialize to a String, or that has a supporting module that implements the Guardian.Token behavior. You can use Guardian tokens to authenticate web endpoints (Plug/Phoenix/X), channels/Sockets (Phoenix - optional), and any other system you can imagine. If you can attach an authentication token you can authenticate it.

Ueberauth is a two-phase authentication framework that provides a clear API, allowing for many strategies to be created and shared within the community. It is heavily inspired by Omniauth. You could call it a port but it is significantly different in operation, but almost the same concept. Huge hat tip to Intridea. Ueberauth provides only the initial authentication challenge, (initial OAuth flow, collecting the information from a login form, etc). It does not authenticate each request, that's up to your application. You could issue a token or put the result into a session for the needs of your application. Libraries like Guardian can help you with that aspect of authentication. ...