JSON Web Key (JWK)

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 40
Abstract: A JSON Web Key (JWK) is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data structure that represents a cryptographic key. This specification also defines a JWK Set JSON data structure that represents a set of JWKs. Cryptographic algorithms and identifiers for use with this specification are described in the separate JSON Web Algorithms (JWA) specification and IANA registries established by that specification.
Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC7517
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7517
Author(s): Michael B. Jones
Keyword(s): JSON, JOSE, JWS, JWE, JWK, JWA

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ECMA.262.201106 — ECMA262 EXTERNAL
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), "Media Types", < http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types >. EXTERNAL
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IETF RFC 2046 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2818 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 3629 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3986 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 4648 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4945 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4949 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5246 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 5280 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 6125 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7159 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 7515 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7516 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7518 [Active*]
T-REC-X.690.1994 — 3 EXTERNAL

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IETF.draft-panzer-magicsig-01 — MagicSignatures EXTERNAL
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Kocher, P., "Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffe-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems", In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Cryptology Conference Advances in Cryptology, Springer-Verlag, pp. 104-113, 1996. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 3447 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 5226 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 6030 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6838 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7519 [Active*]
W3C.CR-webcryptoapi.20141211 — W3C.CR-WebCryptoAPI-20141211 EXTERNAL
W3C.NOTE-xmldsig-core2.20130411 — W3C.NOTE-xmldsig-core2-20130411 EXTERNAL

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IETF RFC 7515 [Active*]
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IETF RFC 7591 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7638 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7797 [Active*]
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IETF RFC 8725 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9052 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9140 [Active*]