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RFC 8392
Title: CBOR Web Token (CWT)
Author: M. Jones,
E. Wahlstroem,
S. Erdtman,
H. Tschofenig
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: May 2018
Mailbox: mbj@microsoft.com,
erik@wahlstromstekniska.se,
erdtman@spotify.com,
Hannes.Tschofenig@arm.com
Pages: 25
Characters: 46316
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-ace-cbor-web-token-15.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8392
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8392
CBOR Web Token (CWT) is a compact means of representing claims to be
transferred between two parties. The claims in a CWT are encoded in
the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR), and CBOR Object
Signing and Encryption (COSE) is used for added application-layer
security protection. A claim is a piece of information asserted
about a subject and is represented as a name/value pair consisting of
a claim name and a claim value. CWT is derived from JSON Web Token
(JWT) but uses CBOR rather than JSON.
This document is a product of the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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