Agentic Protocols

Web Bot Auth

Definition

Web Bot Auth is an IETF draft standard for cryptographically authenticating bot requests using HTTP Message Signatures. Sites publish a directory at /.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory listing public keys for trusted bots. The standard solves the long-running problem of distinguishing legitimate AI crawlers from impersonators.

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