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RFC 7516
Title: JSON Web Encryption (JWE)
Author: M. Jones, J. Hildebrand
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: May 2015
Mailbox: mbj@microsoft.com,
jhildebr@cisco.com
Pages: 51
Characters: 108322
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption-40.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7516
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7516
JSON Web Encryption (JWE) represents encrypted content using JSON-based data
structures. Cryptographic algorithms and identifiers for
use with this specification are described in the separate JSON Web
Algorithms (JWA) specification and IANA registries defined by that
specification. Related digital signature and Message Authentication
Code (MAC) capabilities are described in the separate JSON Web
Signature (JWS) specification.
This document is a product of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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