JSON Web Token (JWT)
draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-12
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OAuth Working Group M. Jones
Internet-Draft Microsoft
Intended status: Standards Track J. Bradley
Expires: April 10, 2014 Ping Identity
N. Sakimura
NRI
October 7, 2013
JSON Web Token (JWT)
draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-12
Abstract
JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact URL-safe means of representing
claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT
are encoded as a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object that is
used as the payload of a JSON Web Signature (JWS) structure or as the
plaintext of a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) structure, enabling the
claims to be digitally signed or MACed and/or encrypted.
The suggested pronunciation of JWT is the same as the English word
"jot".
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. JSON Web Token (JWT) Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.1. Example JWT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. JWT Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. Registered Claim Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1.1. "iss" (Issuer) Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1.2. "sub" (Subject) Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1.3. "aud" (Audience) Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.4. "exp" (Expiration Time) Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.5. "nbf" (Not Before) Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.6. "iat" (Issued At) Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1.7. "jti" (JWT ID) Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2. Public Claim Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. Private Claim Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. JWT Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.1. "typ" (Type) Header Parameter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.2. "cty" (Content Type) Header Parameter . . . . . . . . . . 11
5.3. Replicating Claims as Header Parameters . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Plaintext JWTs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1. Example Plaintext JWT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. Rules for Creating and Validating a JWT . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7.1. String Comparison Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
8. Cryptographic Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
9. URI for Declaring that Content is a JWT . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.1. JSON Web Token Claims Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
10.1.1. Registration Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
10.1.2. Initial Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
10.2. Sub-Namespace Registration of
urn:ietf:params:oauth:token-type:jwt . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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