What are 'iss' and 'aud'?

decentralized-identity / confidential-storage

Confidential Storage Specification and Implementation

https://identity.foundation/confidential-storage/

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What are 'iss' and 'aud'? #23

Closed llorllale closed 4 years ago

llorllale commented 5 years ago

I keep seeing these two attributes in example requests but have found no definition for them thus far. In all examples, their values are DIDs... but DIDs belonging to what exactly?

csuwildcat commented 5 years ago

They are from the existing JWT/OIDC family of standards, and mean 'issuer' and 'audience', which generally map to the Issuing party and the Subject, in our use cases.

llorllale commented 5 years ago

@csuwildcat thank you