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PROPOSED STANDARD

Author:

M. Jones

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IETF

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jose (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7517

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Abstract

A JSON Web Key (JWK) is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) datastructure that represents a cryptographic key. This specificationalso defines a JWK Set JSON data structure that represents a set ofJWKs. Cryptographic algorithms and identifiers for use with thisspecification are described in the separate JSON Web Algorithms (JWA)specification and IANA registries established by that specification.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.