diff --git a/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc b/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc
index a54ebdcf388e..b09bbe0d091a 100644
--- a/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/filetransfer.cc
@@ -316,7 +316,9 @@ struct curlFileTransfer : public FileTransfer
             curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_PIPEWAIT, 1);
             #endif
             #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x072f00
-            if (fileTransferSettings.enableHttp2)
+            // Our writeCallbackWrapper does not support rewinding which breaks
+            // negotiate/kerberos auth over http/2.
+            if (fileTransferSettings.enableHttp2 && request.authmethod != HttpAuthMethod::NEGOTIATE)
                 curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_2TLS);
             else
                 curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1);
@@ -353,6 +355,8 @@ struct curlFileTransfer : public FileTransfer
                 curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
             }
 
+            curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, request.authmethod);
+
             curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, fileTransferSettings.connectTimeout.get());
 
             curl_easy_setopt(req, CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT, 1L);
diff --git a/src/libstore/filetransfer.hh b/src/libstore/filetransfer.hh
index 1c271cbec03f..8fa20b610087 100644
--- a/src/libstore/filetransfer.hh
+++ b/src/libstore/filetransfer.hh
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include "types.hh"
 #include "hash.hh"
 #include "config.hh"
+#include "http-binary-cache-store.hh"
 
 #include <string>
 #include <future>
@@ -56,6 +57,8 @@ struct FileTransferRequest
     std::string expectedETag;
     bool verifyTLS = true;
     bool head = false;
+    HttpAuthMethod authmethod = HttpAuthMethod::BASIC;
+    std::string bearer_token;
     size_t tries = fileTransferSettings.tries;
     unsigned int baseRetryTimeMs = 250;
     ActivityId parentAct;
diff --git a/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc b/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc
index 3328caef9c4d..588496bc6d07 100644
--- a/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc
+++ b/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.cc
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #include "binary-cache-store.hh"
+#include "http-binary-cache-store.hh"
 #include "filetransfer.hh"
 #include "globals.hh"
 #include "nar-info-disk-cache.hh"
@@ -8,12 +9,38 @@ namespace nix {
 
 MakeError(UploadToHTTP, Error);
 
+HttpAuthMethod parseHttpAuthMethod(const std::string &str) {
+    static const std::map<std::string, HttpAuthMethod> map = {
+        {"none", HttpAuthMethod::NONE},
+        {"basic", HttpAuthMethod::BASIC},
+        {"digest", HttpAuthMethod::DIGEST},
+        {"negotiate", HttpAuthMethod::NEGOTIATE},
+        {"ntlm", HttpAuthMethod::NTLM},
+        {"bearer", HttpAuthMethod::BEARER},
+        {"any", HttpAuthMethod::ANY},
+        {"anysafe", HttpAuthMethod::ANYSAFE}};
+    auto it = map.find(str);
+    if (it == map.end()) {
+       throw UsageError("option authmethod has invalid value '%s'", str);
+    }
+    return it->second;
+}
+
 struct HttpBinaryCacheStoreConfig : virtual BinaryCacheStoreConfig
 {
     using BinaryCacheStoreConfig::BinaryCacheStoreConfig;
 
     const std::string name() override { return "HTTP Binary Cache Store"; }
 
+    const Setting<std::string> authmethod{this, "basic", "authmethod",
+        R"(
+          libcurl auth method to use (`none`, `basic`, `digest`, `bearer`, `negotiate`, `ntlm`, `any`, or `anysafe`).
+          See https://curl.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH.html for more info.
+        )"};
+
+    const Setting<std::string> bearer_token{this, "", "bearer-token",
+        "Bearer token to use for authentication. Requires `authmethod` to be set to `bearer`."};
+
     std::string doc() override
     {
         return
@@ -149,11 +176,13 @@ class HttpBinaryCacheStore : public virtual HttpBinaryCacheStoreConfig, public v
 
     FileTransferRequest makeRequest(const std::string & path)
     {
-        return FileTransferRequest(
+        auto request = FileTransferRequest(
             hasPrefix(path, "https://") || hasPrefix(path, "http://") || hasPrefix(path, "file://")
             ? path
             : cacheUri + "/" + path);
-
+        request.authmethod = parseHttpAuthMethod(authmethod);
+        request.bearer_token = bearer_token;
+        return request;
     }
 
     void getFile(const std::string & path, Sink & sink) override
diff --git a/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.hh b/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.hh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7c5e76880fc6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libstore/http-binary-cache-store.hh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#pragma once
+///@file
+
+#include "types.hh"
+
+#include "curl/curl.h"
+
+namespace nix {
+    enum struct HttpAuthMethod : unsigned long {
+        NONE = CURLAUTH_NONE,
+        BASIC = CURLAUTH_BASIC,
+        DIGEST = CURLAUTH_DIGEST,
+        NEGOTIATE = CURLAUTH_NEGOTIATE,
+        NTLM = CURLAUTH_NTLM,
+        BEARER = CURLAUTH_BEARER,
+        ANY = CURLAUTH_ANY,
+        ANYSAFE = CURLAUTH_ANYSAFE
+    };
+}