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;relying party | ;relying party | ||
:see audience. | :see audience. The relying party is the server that receives an identity assertion and makes a validity determination about it. | ||
;identity assertion | ;identity assertion | ||
:A cryptographically signed document which proves to a particular audience that the current browser session is associated with an identity. | :A cryptographically-signed document which proves to a particular audience that the current browser session is associated with an identity. | ||
;primary authority | ;primary authority | ||
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;secondary authority | ;secondary authority | ||
:A 3rd party service trusted by a relying party to issue identity assertions in lieu of a service which has not yet deployed infrastructure to issue identity assertions on their own. | :A 3rd party service trusted by a relying party to issue identity assertions in lieu of a service which has not yet deployed infrastructure to issue identity assertions on their own. | ||
;JWT | |||
:JSON Web Token, a protocol for cryptographically-signed JSON; see [[MozillaID/JWT]] | |||
== Protocol Flow == | == Protocol Flow == | ||