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    <p>Recently Google announced that they are supporting OAUth for Gmail IMAP/SMTP. I browsed through their multiple documentations, but still I am confused about if they support OAuth for installed applications.</p> <p>1. In <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/oauth.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this documentation</a> they say:</p> <blockquote> <p>Note: Though the OAuth protocol supports the desktop/installed application use case, Google only supports OAuth for web applications.</p> </blockquote> <p>But they also have a document for <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuthForInstalledApps.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">OAuth for installed applications</a>.</p> <p>2. When I read the <a href="http://oauth.net/core/1.0a/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">OAuth specification</a> pointed by them, it says (in section 11.7):</p> <blockquote> <p>In many applications, the Consumer application will be under the control of potentially untrusted parties. For example, if the Consumer is a freely available desktop application, an attacker may be able to download a copy for analysis. In such cases, attackers will be able to recover the Consumer Secret used to authenticate the Consumer to the Service Provider.</p> </blockquote> <p>Also I think the disclaimer in point 1 above is about <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/directory.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Data APIs</a>, and surely IMAP/SMTP is not a part of them.</p> <p>I understand that for installed applications I can have a setup like:</p> <ol> <li><p>Have a small web-app at say example.com for my application. This web-app talks to Google gets the access token.</p></li> <li><p>The installed application talks to example.com only to get the access token.</p></li> <li><p>Installed application then talks to Google with the access token.</p></li> </ol> <p>I am now confused. Is this the only way? Also, if I do OAuth from desktop application we have to ship the Consumer Secret key with the app. Then, we can't maintain secrecy of the consumer key.</p>
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