RFC 7165: Use Cases and Requirements for JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)

Many Internet applications have a need for object-based security mechanisms in addition to security mechanisms at the network layer or transport layer. For…

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Outgoing relationships (15 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 5652: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Normative reference — RFC 4949: Internet Security Glossary, Version 2
Normative reference — RFC 6120: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core
Normative reference — RFC 6749: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework
Normative reference — RFC 6708: Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Requirements
Informative reference — RFC 5246: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.2
Informative reference — RFC 4301: Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Informative reference — RFC 4648: The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings
Informative reference — RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS
Informative reference — RFC 5322: Internet Message Format
Informative reference — RFC 5751: Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Message Specification
Informative reference — RFC 3207: SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security
Informative reference — RFC 6750: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage
Informative reference — RFC 3923: End-to-End Signing and Object Encryption for the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)