title: Can anybody explain OAuth?
body: <p>I've read a bit about it at <a href="http://oauth.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://oauth.net/</a> , it's "a simple way to publish and interact with protected data" apparently.</p>
  
  <p>I think it's exactly what I need to provide a secure way of accessing data from an android/iphone app via a REST web service, but I can't work out exactly what it is.</p>
  
  <p>So, put simply, what exactly does it do and are there any (really) simple examples of it in action I can follow, preferably implementing something in c# that can be accessed from a smartphone app?</p>