JOSE Working Group M. Jones
Internet-Draft Microsoft
Intended status: Standards Track May 28, 2013
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JSON Web Key (JWK)
draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-11
Abstract
A JSON Web Key (JWK) is a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data
structure that represents a cryptographic key. This specification
also defines a JSON Web Key Set (JWK Set) JSON data structure for
representing a set of JWKs. Cryptographic algorithms and identifiers
for use with this specification are described in the separate JSON
Web Algorithms (JWA) specification.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. JSON Web Key (JWK) Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. "kty" (Key Type) Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. "use" (Key Use) Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. "alg" (Algorithm) Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.4. "kid" (Key ID) Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.5. "x5u" (X.509 URL) Header Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.6. "x5t" (X.509 Certificate Thumbprint) Header Parameter . . 6
3.7. "x5c" (X.509 Certificate Chain) Parameter . . . . . . . . 6
4. JSON Web Key Set (JWK Set) Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. "keys" (JSON Web Key Set) Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . 6
5. String Comparison Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
6. Encrypted JWK and Encrypted JWK Set Formats . . . . . . . . . 7
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7.1. JSON Web Key Parameters Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.1.1. Registration Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.1.2. Initial Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7.2. JSON Web Key Set Parameters Registry . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.2.1. Registration Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
7.2.2. Initial Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.3. JSON Web Signature and Encryption Type Values
Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.3.1. Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.4. Media Type Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7.4.1. Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Appendix A. Example JSON Web Key Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A.1. Example Public Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
A.2. Example Private Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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