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RFC 7800
Proof-of-Possession Key Semantics for JSON Web Tokens (JWTs),April 2016
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Authors:
- M. Jones
J. Bradley
H. Tschofenig - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- oauth (sec)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7800
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Abstract
This specification describes how to declare in a JSON Web Token (JWT)that the presenter of the JWT possesses a particular proof-of-possession key and how the recipient can cryptographically confirmproof of possession of the key by the presenter. Being able to provepossession of a key is also sometimes described as the presenterbeing a holder-of-key.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.