Merge pull request #1447 from kumar303/hawk

Adds HawkREST to 3rd party docs

docs/api-guide/authentication.md

@@ -393,6 +393,10 @@ The [Django OAuth2 Consumer][doac] library from [Rediker Software][rediker] is a
 
 JSON Web Token is a fairly new standard which can be used for token-based authentication. Unlike the built-in TokenAuthentication scheme, JWT Authentication doesn't need to use a database to validate a token. [Blimp][blimp] maintains the [djangorestframework-jwt][djangorestframework-jwt] package which provides a JWT Authentication class as well as a mechanism for clients to obtain a JWT given the username and password.
 
+## Hawk HTTP Authentication
+
+The [HawkREST][hawkrest] library builds on the [Mohawk][mohawk] library to let you work with [Hawk][hawk] signed requests and responses in your API. [Hawk][hawk] lets two parties securely communicate with each other using messages signed by a shared key. It is based on [HTTP MAC access authentication][mac] (which was based on parts of [OAuth 1.0][oauth-1.0a]).
+
 ## HTTP Signature Authentication
 
 HTTP Signature (currently a [IETF draft][http-signature-ietf-draft]) provides a way to achieve origin authentication and message integrity for HTTP messages. Similar to [Amazon's HTTP Signature scheme][amazon-http-signature], used by many of its services, it permits stateless, per-request authentication. [Elvio Toccalino][etoccalino] maintains the [djangorestframework-httpsignature][djangorestframework-httpsignature] package which provides an easy to use HTTP Signature Authentication mechanism.
@@ -427,3 +431,7 @@ HTTP Signature (currently a [IETF draft][http-signature-ietf-draft]) provides a
 [djangorestframework-httpsignature]: https://github.com/etoccalino/django-rest-framework-httpsignature
 [amazon-http-signature]: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/signature-version-4.html
 [http-signature-ietf-draft]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cavage-http-signatures/
+[hawkrest]: http://hawkrest.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+[hawk]: https://github.com/hueniverse/hawk
+[mohawk]: http://mohawk.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
+[mac]: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hammer-oauth-v2-mac-token-05

docs/topics/contributing.md

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ To run the tests, clone the repository, and then:
     # Run the tests
     rest_framework/runtests/runtests.py
 
-You can also use the excellent `[tox][tox]` testing tool to run the tests against all supported versions of Python and Django.  Install `tox` globally, and then simply run:
+You can also use the excellent [tox][tox] testing tool to run the tests against all supported versions of Python and Django.  Install `tox` globally, and then simply run:
 
     tox