Transmute Fraunhofer SIT Microsoft Microsoft This specification describes verifiable data structures and associated proof types for use with COSE. The extensibility of the approach is demonstrated by providing CBOR encodings for RFC9162. Discussion Venues This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. Discussion of this document takes place on the CBOR Object Signing and Encryption Working Group mailing list (cose@ietf.org), which is archived at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/cose/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/cose-wg/draft-ietf-cose-merkle-tree-proofs.