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RFC 7165
Title: Use Cases and Requirements for
JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)
Author: R. Barnes
Status: Informational
Stream: IETF
Date: April 2014
Mailbox: rlb@ipv.sx
Pages: 25
Characters: 58324
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-jose-use-cases-06.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7165.txt
Many Internet applications have a need for object-based security
mechanisms in addition to security mechanisms at the network layer or
transport layer. For many years, the Cryptographic Message Syntax
(CMS) has provided a binary secure object format based on ASN.1.
Over time, binary object encodings such as ASN.1 have become less
common than text-based encodings, such as the JavaScript Object
Notation (JSON). This document defines a set of use cases and
requirements for a secure object format encoded using JSON, drawn
from a variety of application security mechanisms currently in
development.
This document is a product of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption Working Group of the IETF.
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