X-Trust: Human proof for AI APIs — the part Web Bot Auth leaves out
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The IETF Web Bot Auth Working Group — AWS, Cloudflare, Google, Meta — is shipping cryptographic proof that a request came from a known AI agent. Their charter explicitly states: End-user (human) authentication is out of scope. Verified agent does not mean human present. That gap has a cost. One bot…
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- 2026-09-09 11:51 · DEV Community — AI
X-Trust: Human proof for AI APIs — the part Web Bot Auth leaves out