The Wonderful World of Tokens and Claims: CWT — CBOR Web Tokens

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As we go back to work, we might have to get someone to sign a claim that we are allowed back into our offices. For this, we might get someone trusted to sign a document (an issuer), and then we show this to a verifier at the front door, in order to gain access. We thus make a claim to something, and where the signature is trusted by the verifier. There then doesn’t have to be any…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
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Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.