RFC 7516: JSON Web Encryption (JWE)

JSON Web Encryption (JWE) represents encrypted content using JSON-based data structures. Cryptographic algorithms and identifiers for use with this…

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Outgoing relationships (10 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 5280: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile
Normative reference — RFC 3629: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646
Normative reference — RFC 4949: Internet Security Glossary, Version 2
Normative reference — RFC 20: ASCII format for network interchange
Normative reference — RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
Informative reference — RFC 4086: Randomness Requirements for Security
Informative reference — RFC 5652: Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)
Informative reference — RFC 3447: Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS) #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.1
Informative reference — RFC 3766: Determining Strengths For Public Keys Used For Exchanging Symmetric Keys
Informative reference — RFC 3218: Preventing the Million Message Attack on Cryptographic Message Syntax

Incoming relationships (22 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 7519: JSON Web Token (JWT)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7517: JSON Web Key (JWK)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7518: JSON Web Algorithms (JWA)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8725: JSON Web Token Best Current Practices
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7800: Proof-of-Possession Key Semantics for JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8935: Push-Based Security Event Token (SET) Delivery Using HTTP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8936: Poll-Based Security Event Token (SET) Delivery Using HTTP
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7520: Examples of Protecting Content Using JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9246: URI Signing for Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9677: Content Delivery Network Interconnection (CDNI) Metadata for Delegated Credentials
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9701: JSON Web Token (JWT) Response for OAuth Token Introspection
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9728: OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9770: Notification of Revoked Access Tokens in the Authentication and Authorization for Constrained Environments (ACE) Framework
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9864: Fully-Specified Algorithms for JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) and CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9901: Selective Disclosure for JSON Web Tokens
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7951: JSON Encoding of Data Modeled with YANG
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8392: CBOR Web Token (CWT)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8152: CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9052: CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE): Structures and Process
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7635: Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Extension for Third-Party Authorization
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8188: Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8322: Resource-Oriented Lightweight Information Exchange (ROLIE)