Technical Summary
This document, JSON Web Encryption (JWE), represents encrypted content using
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) based data structures.
Working Group Summary
The document has clear working group consensus for publication, and has been
reviewed by several WG participants since its initial adoption as a working group
item.
Document Quality
This document has been reviewed and revised many times. There are multiple
implementations of this document. Some of these are listed at:
https://openid.net/developers/libraries/ (see the JWT/JWS/JWE/JWK/JWA
Implementations section).
The change log includes a detailed list of contributions, those which were significant
do appear in the Acknowledgments section that will stay with the published version.
Personnel
Karen O'Donoghue is acting as the Document Shepherd. Kathleen Moriarty is the
Responsible Area Director.
IANA Note
'The registry uses the 5226 'Specification Required'
registration policy.'
RFC Editor Note:
This draft is part of a set of drafts that cross 2 working groups. I am
working through the reviews (shepherd just confirmed them for the OAuth
ones) and would like them processed as a set. The JOSE drafts will
hopefully be ready shortly as well. The set includes (in order):
1 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature
2 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption
3 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key
4 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-algorithms
5 draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token
6 draft-ietf-jose-cookbook
7 draft-ietf-oauth-assertions
8 draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer
9 draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-bearer